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Reporters Without Borders voiced shock at an armed attack on the privately-owned Iraqi TV station Al Shaabiya today that left at least eight employees dead and several wounded. The press freedom organised also expressed its concern about the steadily mounting number of journalists who are kidnapped and then executed, and the fact that one Iraqi journalist, Bilal Hussein, has now been held for s..

Straw’s View towards Veiled Women, between, Roy’s Theory and Putnam’s Prophecy

In his book, Globalization of Islam, the French Oliver Roy argues that the Jihad ideology that worries the new Europe is the product of Islam’s migration outside its geographical framework; hence, it isn’t related to the moderate religiousness of most nations in the Islamic world. The current terrorism phenome..

 Mohammed Mehdi Akef changed face of underground movement into openly active player on political scene.

In almost three years as supreme guide of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Mehdi Akef has changed the face of the underground movement into an openly active player on the political scene.

"He is definitely the most audacious leader," says Diaa Rashwan, senior researc..

Hassan Al-Banna, who founded Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, has left a lasting ideological legacy, but the movement today bears many differences to the one founded in 1928.

On Saturday, members of what is the largest opposition movement in Egypt mark the centenary of Banna’s birth in the Nile Delta village of Mahmudiya.

“Hassan al-Banna is the father of an authentic Islamic phi..

111 Bahraini candidates including 11 women have submitted their applications to stand for the upcoming parliamentary election in Bahrain. Centers accepting candidates’s requests to run for the elections opened on Saturday October 14,2006, and will remain opened for three days. On the other hand, candidacy for municipal election will begin on Friday and continues until October 24th.

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In line with the government policy of imposing more exceptional and freedom restricting laws, the Ministry of Wakf (endowment) recently presented a bill banning gatherings and demonstrations inside mosques courtyards, with a three -month imprisonment and LE 500 in financial punishment for anyone who is involved in such acts.

  The bill was referred to the President , with a me..

As Arab and Muslim intellectuals and activists concerned about the promotion of democracy in our region, we call on America and its president to reaffirm -- in words and actions -- its commitment to sustained democratic reform in the Arab world.

We have been heartened by the strong commitment to liberty that President Bush expressed in his November 2003 speech at the National Endowment ..

HOW TO LOSE THE WAR ON TERROR
PART 1: Talking with the ’..

In a very well written series of five articles, the authors Alastair Crooke and Mark Perry argue for the need for the West to engage in direct dialogue, or what they preferred to ca..

Leaders of organizations, party chairmen and prominent figures in the Muslim world, topped by the Muslim Brotherhood, released a statement on October 14, 2006, rejecting pressure exerted by the quartet commission, the broker in the Middle East peace process, on the Hamas -led government since it was formed on March 29, 2006.

The undersigned of this statement included MB Chairman Mr. Moh..

The International Institute for Peace issued a new study, "American Foreign Policy and the Islamic Renewal". The modern study explains the role of USA in framing the nature of ongoing polemics within the Muslim communities about what is called the Fundamentalist Salafi movements and the Islamic reformation trends.

The a..

The Muslim Brotherhood does not represent a threat to freedom of expression, veteran actor Omar Sharif declared.

Sharif, 74, an Egyptian Christian who converted to Islam in adulthood, has been the subject of threats by Islamist groups for his recent appearance in an Italian biblical TV epic playing St Peter. "I have know them for a long time and I remember that some members of the organ..