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One must be cautious when writing about religious leaders, as they have mastered the art of speaking to an audience. Humans have a penchant for self-deception and self-justification; when mixed with religious language manipulation is easily manufactured, even if unintentionally advanced. People who...
The Middle East Media Research Institute recently highlighted a YouTube video issued by the former Muftī of Egypt, Nasr Farīd Wāsil, on May 7, 2011. In his presentation, MEMRI quotes him as saying: The martyr Bin Lādin, Allah's mercy upon him, waged Jihad for the sake of Allah against the Soviets...
 Thousands of Copts descended on the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in ‘Abbāssīyah, Cairo on Friday, May 6, in response to a Salafi Muslim demonstration at the same location a week earlier
The Azhar received a phone call from the Saudi Arabia-based family of Usāmah Bin Lādin, expressing thanks for the Azhar's position against the burial of al-Qā'idah leader's body. U.S. forces had killed Bin Lādin in a raid on his hideout in Pakistan and threw his body into the sea, which Muslims...
A march of thousands of people started from al-Nūr mosque to the U.S. embassy in Cairo/Egypt condemning the death of al-Qā'idah leader Usāmah Bin Lādin. Shaykh Hāfiz Salāmah, the leader of the protesters, went to the embassy first by car and did not participate in the march because of his old age...
Around 300 Islamists rallied in anger in Cairo on May 6, 2011 over the killing of al-Qā'idah leader Usāmah Bin Lādin by US forces in Pakistan. The demonstrators were watched on by police as they gathered around a salafist mosque and unfurled a banner bearing a picture of Bin Lādin that declared he...
On Thursday, May 5, 2011, the salafī cleric Yāsir al-Burhāmī stated that jihādist leader Usāmah Bin Lādin was a martyr who died with his "head held high." He further accused the United States for disposing of Bin Lādin’s corpse in the sea, thereby once again showing a complete lack of “sanctity...
'Abūd al-Zumur, founding member of Egypt's Islamic Jihād Organization and friend of al-Qā'idah's new chief Ayman al-Zawahrī, said on 3 March 2011 that Usāmah Bin Lādin's death will not affect the organization and pleaded against revenge attacks. Zumur, who was in jail with Zawāhrī, said Bin Lādin...
This editorialist says that the loss Egypt suffered as a result of the recent church attack in Alexandria is similar to the defeat suffered by Israel during the 1967 war. Only this time, he says, one part of the Egyptian community [implying Coptic community] views the bombing as an attack on...
    As southern Sudan prepares to vote this week on a possible secession from the north, Sunnī Khālid says that the African-American community is also divided on the issue...      

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