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The siege of a Russian primary school in North Ossetia by Chechen rebels, which ended in massive bloodshed, leaving hundreds dead, and the killing of 12 Nepalis by an Islamic group in Iraq horrified Arabs, prompting self-criticism and fresh concern about an international backlash against Islām.
Rose El-Youssef created a special file on extremism and terrorism. The file discusses cassette tapes that degrade women in Egyptian society, the fact that some lawyers looking for fame collaborate with extremists, that some scholars oppose scholarly development and that terrorists have turned to...
Demonstrations that start from mosques with copies of the Qur’ān held high just make us recall the past when the supporters of Mu‘āwiya Ibn Abī Sufiān, the founder of the Umayyad Dynasty that ruled an Islamic empire for nearly 100 years, hoisted copies of the Qur’ān high on spears to urge their...
The Mufti of Egypt accused the public and private communication companies of urging people to gamble through competitions based on making special-rate phone calls. The Mufti considered such competitions to be religiously forbidden. A media expert believes that this is not a religious issue as the...
Mamdouh Mahran claimed that he was being patronized by the Journalists Syndicate. Many complaints were received against the newspaper because of fabricated or baseless news stories and nude pictures. A few days before he published the story about the former monk they questioned him about the fact...
The village of Tanah has about ten or twenty confidence men, who have taken up the profession of blackmailing the dreams of simple people by magic, quackery and stealth.
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