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Dr. Rafiq Habib is a Coptic intellectual who refused to meet with the American delegation for International Religious Freedom. He believes that the delegation tries to force what they call religious freedom, allowing American missionaries to work in Egypt to convert Muslims and Orthodox Copts to...
Press Information Note 53 The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) met with Pope Shenouda, the head of the Coptic Church, and the Sheikh of the Azhar but otherwise was almost universally boycotted by both Christians and Muslims. The members of the Commission waited...
Saad Eddin Ibrahim said that because he is currently being tried before Egypt’s Higher State Security Court on charges which include his lectures and writings on religious freedom and minority rights, including those of Egyptian Copts, his defense lawyer requested him to decline the invitation to...
The American Embassy in Cairo invited Mohammed Mursi, the Brotherhood representative in the Parliament, to participate in the meetings of the American Commission for International Religious Freedom. Mursi accepted the invitation, at first, and tried to persuade some of the Brotherhood leaders to...
The US Commission for International Religious Freedom met with Bishop Marcos of Shoubra Al-Kheima and asked him about the rulings given in Al-Kosheh killings, underage Christian girls turning to Islam and about the non-inclusion of the Coptic period in the history syllabus. Coptic Catholic Bishop...
Through interviewing Omar Bakri, the leader of Al-Muhagerin [immigrants] group, the author recounts how Adel Abdel Al-Mageed, an Egyptian lawyer who was involved with Usama Bin Laden, was arrested. He also discussed the reasons behind his trial.
Sheikh Omar Abd Al-Rahman, the leader and mufti of the Gama’at al-Islamiya, who is now imprisoned in the United States for a life, changed his mind about presenting a request to return to Egypt because he doesn’t want to give up his activities for the Islamic Daawa, the call to Islam.
The United States dropped the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) from its list of "foreign terrorist organizations". In the first review of the list in two years, it added the Al Qaida group of Saudi-born Islamist Osama Ben Laden, accused of bombing the U.S. embassies in...
The U.S. embassy in Cairo has granted visas to relatives of an Egyptian Muslim spiritual leader to enable them to visit him in a U.S. jail, the London-based Arabic daily "Al Hayat" newspaper reported on September 3. Sheikh Omar, 61, was found guilty in October 1995 of seditious conspiracy and...
A British court on August 16 ordered two suspects to remain in custody to face extradition hearings in connection with last year’s deadly bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Magistrate Ronald Bartle remanded the two men - Ibrahim Hussein Abdel Hadi Eidarous, 42, and Adel Mohammed Al...

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