Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 2004
The new Orientalism now uses mainly anthropological methods in interpreting classical
texts, and employs sociological methods in interpreting contemporary phenomenon. We lack access
to Western studies of classical topics as well as contemporary issues. However severely we
criticize what others...
Date of source: Saturday, January 24, 2004
There has been an uproar in
Spain due to a religious book written by the mosque Imam Sheikh Muhammad Kamal Mustafa, titled
"Women in Islam." Women’s rights groups denounced the book. They think that the book urges
violence against women.
The problem about the book is the part in which Sheikh...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 3, 2004
The article reports about Muhammad Kamal Mustafa, an Egyptian
Imam living in Spain who was sentenced to jail and fined 2,160 Euro by a Spanish court. Mustafa
is accused of publishing a book in which he says that punishing a disobedient woman should be
done through light beating.
The court...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 10, 2004
Ragab Al-Bana writes
about an article published in the International Herald Tribune by Uri Avnery, who is the head of
the Israeli peace movement Gush Shalom and a former member of the Knesset. The article reflects
the opinion of a Jew, an Israeli, and a prominent political and intellectual...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Are all those who criticize Israel anti-Semitic?
Could someone be anti-Zionist without being anti-Semitic? Is Europe once more anti-Semitic? What
about anti-Semitism in the Arab world? All these questions were posed and discussed by eminent
Israeli writer and thinker Uri Avneri.
Is Europe anti-...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 27, 2005
The news about arresting terrorist suspects all over Europe and the US drew the attention to what is known as the dormant terrorist cells of al-Qā‘ida. Those cells share common impetuses: reestablishing the Islamic Caliphate, the detestation of the US and its policies towards the Arab world and the...
Date of source: Friday, April 15, 2005
The Islamic chivalry has liberated Jerusalem and Palestine from the invaders and kept the holy city – under the tolerance of Islam – open to all people of other religions as declared by Salah El-Din (1137-1193) in his message to King Richard I “the Lion-Hearted” (1157- 1199) of England.
Date of source: Friday, April 1, 2005
The ‘clash
of civilizations’ and ‘inter-civilization dialogue’ are two names for the successive stages of the Western campaign against
Islam and Muslims, lately escalated by the United States in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
Thee Western
attitude towards Islam has restricted Muslims...
Date of source: Sunday, March 13, 2005
Six years ago, Dr. Ramsīs ‘Awad, the renowned professor of English literature at ‘Ayn Shams University, produced a unique 700-page encyclopedia. The encyclopedia lists the most important and famous works of literature and art that have been confiscated worldwide. He gave a copy of the encyclopedia...
Date of source: Friday, February 4, 2005
Christopher Columbus, discoverer of America, was nothing but an advocate for a holy war against Islam. He went to the New World (America) in search of gold and then gave it to Pope Alexander VI to prepare a 55,000 strong militant army to attack the Muslims in Palestine.