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CNN survey reveals intolerance for Ground Zero Mosque

A survey conducted by the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll revealed that the controversial plan to build an Islamic centre has not been met with lightly with an overwhelming 70% of Americans voting against the building...

Qaradawi to participate in a break siege convoy to Gaza

Ihsan Hendricks, the president of the Muslim Judicial Council of Cape Town, announced that Dr. Yousef Al-Qaradawi, the chairman of the international union of Muslim scholars (IUMS), would take part in a marine convoy to Gaza Strip...

Hamas welcomes further UN investigation into the Goldstone report

A judicial delegation from the UN arrived in the Gaza Strip Saturday evening to complete investigations into the Goldstone report on the 2008-2009 Israeli war against the Gaza Strip...

Palestinians protest against settlement and Judaization in Sheikh Jarrah area

200 Palestinian citizens and foreign activists went on a march on Saturday evening in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem in protest at Israel's settlement and Judaization activities in the holy city...

UAE concerned after Germany frees Mossad agent suspected in Mabhouh murder

The United Arab Emirates said Saturday it is concerned about the German court’s decision to release an Israeli Mossad agent accused of involvement in the slaying of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai Jan. 2010...

MB hosts dinner for MB military tribunal victims' families

The Muslim Brotherhood held a Ramadan dinner in honour of the military tribunal detainees' families at their headquarters in Cairo ...

MB annual dinner banned by Mubarak's regime

The Muslim Brotherhood's media spokesman and Executive Bureau member, Dr. Mohamed Morsy confirmed that Mubarak's regime in power for over 30 years has banned the Muslim Brotherhood from holding their annual Iftar...

MB chairman criticizes gov't funded TV series smearing MB

Muslim Brotherhood chairman Dr. Mohamed Badie responded to the Egyptian TV series “The group", funded by the Egyptian government and critical of the Muslim Brotherhood and its leadership..

MB strongly condemns the killings of relief workers in Afghanistan

Media spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood Dr. Essam El-Erian vehemently deplored the massacre of 10 aid relief workers who were killed in Afghanistan while returning from one of the villages...

Egypt's authorities ban political opposition from media appearances

The Egyptian Communications Ministry has warned owners of private satellite television channels of allowing Egyptian citizens belonging to political opposition factions from appearing as guests on their channels...

Obama hosts second Iftar for Muslims

President Barak Obama hosted an Iftar (meal for Muslims who break fast at sunset) for a second time since his coming into power...

Jordan teachers threaten to boycott elections

A statement issued on Saturday, by the Amman Teachers' Committee in Jordan criticized Dr. Khaled Al Karaki, the new Education Minister for failing to correct mistakes made by former Education minister Ibrahim Badran...

Court orders release of MB leader Ismail Hamed

The Supreme state security prosecution in Cairo determined the unconditional release of Muslim Brotherhood leader Ismail Hamed in Alexandria..

No amount of Hasbara could beautify Israel 's ugly face

Israeli hasbara doctors and their mouthpieces in the West don’t stop dithering about the perceived failure of the Israeli propaganda machine "to get the message through" to western audiences. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent every year and the best of the best PR firms are recruited to do the job for Israel...

220 Swiss organisations support Freedom Flotilla 2

220 NGOs and unions have expressed support for the Freedom Flotilla 2 which is slated to sail to the Gaza Strip before the end of the year, by participating in one of its ships, the Swiss ship...

Hamdouna: occupation provides meal seven hours before dusk

Ex-captive Rafat Hamdouna, director of Captives Studies Centre, said that the Israeli occupation prison authority refuses to provide the main meal at sunset, which is the time Muslims break their fast, and denies them performing night prayers in a congregation...

Confrontations with the IOF during anti-wall demonstrations

Dozens of protestors suffered breathing difficulties on Friday when IOF troops used teargas to disperse their weekly peaceful demonstrations to protest the building of the Apartheid wall and confiscation of Palestinian land in the West Bank...

Netanyahu rejects any preconditions for direct talks

Israeli media sources have confirmed that the Israeli government has informed the US envoy for the peace process in the region, George Mitchell, of its rejection of the Palestinian preconditions for the renewal of bilateral direct talks...

The cases of Omar Khadr and Bradley Manning

Lawrence Davidson shows how popular apathy and parochialism, combined with control of the information flow by the US government and its allied mass media, has led to a situation whereby the American public views injustice and illegality with complete indifference. At present there are two men sitting in prison who have never met but are nonetheless intimately connected. One is 23 year old Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen who was with a group of Afghan resistance fighters attacked by US troops in 2002 (when he was 15). The second is Private First Class Bradley Manning, the man who blew the whistle on the barbaric tactics used by the US in both Iraq and Afghanistan. It is their different forms of resistance to a war sold to the US public as "necessary" and defensive that binds their fate...

Dozens of Jerusalem residents have iftar with the Jerusalem MPs

Palestinian residents of Jerusalem express their support for their elected MPs, who are threatened with deportation by the Israeli occupation government, by visiting them at their sit-in tent at the Red Cross compound where the MPs have spent the past 43 days...