CAIRO: Egypt’s Agouza criminal court acquitted Egyptian actor Adel Imam and director Sherif Arafah, screen writer Lenin al-Ramley, director Nader Galal and Mohamed Fadel in the case of insulting Islam in films they had made over a decade ago. This, in its session on Thursday. Two days ago, the sentence against them was upheld on [...]
CAIRO: A spokesman from the Nour Party on Tuesday criticized the protest organized by supporters of disqualified presidential hopeful Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, who are rejecting the decision to exclude him from the race. Abu Ismail, along with his supporters, staged a sit-in in front of the Presidential Elections Commission after it disqualified him, on [...]
DUBAI: Dubai Press Club, organizers of the Arab Media Forum, announced on Tuesday the details of two key sessions that will take centre-stage during the 11th edition of the event. Hosted on day-two of the forum, the sessions will examine the role of religious discourses that are aired on Arab media outlets, and the increasing [...]
NEW DELHI: Five students were injured, one serious with knife wounds, over a controversial beef festival organized by students of the Osmania University, located in the central Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The organizers of the beef festival, mainly left wing students unions, were demanding beef as a part of their canteen menu, which has [...]
GOA: In a reaction towards a clash among Christian groups on Easter Sunday, the Church in Goa, a small state on the West Coast of India, has in a letter called for reconciliation among the two groups. The groups – a group of protestant Christians and another belonging to the Roman Catholic Church clashed with [...]
CAIRO: Salafist Sheikh, Mohamed Abdul Maqsod, criticized the attitude of the supporters of Sheikh Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, the presidential hopeful candidate. In an interview with Al- Hayat TV channel on Tuesday, he said that their attitude will “create a new tyrant,” adding that Abu Ismail should not be treated as a “savior president.” “I [...]
New Delhi (dpa) – The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a criminal case against Microsoft India in which it was accused of hosting what was deemed objectionable content on its website, media reported. Microsoft was one of 21 websites – including Yahoo, YouTube and Facebook – accused of hosting images that could offend religious [...]
DUBAI: Bahrain’s Ambassador to the United States, Houda Nonoo, highlighted the Kingdom’s record in preserving religious freedom in a speech to members of the Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church on Thursday evening. The talk has angered activists in the country, who continue to battle tear gas and police brutality in the country in their uprising against [...]
CAIRO: Staring down at her feet, Ajak Mauyok replied “yes” politely when I asked her if she spoke Arabic. Looking startled to have somebody approach her, the South Sudanese refugee, sitting on the metro, told me of the devastating discrimination she’d witnessed inside God’s house. Before being forced to abandon her home and studies, 25-year [...]
CAIRO: Stuck on the 6 of October bridge, with a dead public bus parked to the side in front of us, 40-year old Mahmoud Sabry blamed traffic on the ongoing protests. Having been a taxi driver for over 10 years, Sabry told me that Cairo’s deteriorating traffic problem has got him looking for other options [...]
An independent United Nations human rights expert on Iran on Thursday stressed the need for constructive dialogue with the country’s authorities, adding that he was encouraged by Tehran’s stated willingness to cooperate with him as he carries out his mandate.“I believe that we will be able to have a constructive dialogue, especially since the delegation [...]
The Bekasi municipality in the Indonesian island of Java has officially banned the religious practices of Ahmadiyya. The ban was announced on Thursday, and was followed by cries of constitutional violation. The head of the Bekasi Agency for State Unit, Politics and Community Protection, Agus Dharma, has said the ban was passed in order to [...]
Saudi Arabia and Austria are launching a Vienna-based inter-faith and tolerance center with the goal of promoting tolerance in Saudi Arabia. Many critics of the initiative have pointed out that the Gulf kingdom prohibits any religion from practicing in the country besides Islam and say the center is a futile attempt to support the country’s [...]
CAIRO: Water came down on the crowd, something hard hit one man on the head and aggression ran rampant from drivers on Tuesday in Cairo as thousands of Coptic Christians marched through the streets of the Egyptian capital, demanding their rights be heard, and ultimately listened to. It was an impressive scene, only interrupted a [...]
Yogyakarta, Indonesia: This Sunday, a suicide bomber attacked a church in Solo, Indonesia, killing at least one congregant and injuring many others. Indonesia, a secular nation, has had a long history of religious tolerance when it comes to minorities. But since the 2002 attacks in Bali, which were religiously motivated, questioning the relationship between religion [...]
CAIRO: A recently released poll that was originally conducted in June by the Egyptian Cabinet’s Information And Decision Support Center (IDSC) was, to say the least, a very interesting numerical, statistical and sociological exercise. The poll aimed to investigate the attitudes of Egyptians with regards to religion, both on a social and a political level. [...]
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a topic that has been rarely associated with Western Europe, yet due to the arrival of immigrants and refugees from Africa, the Middle East and Asia, female circumcision has become a specific Western concern. It is estimated that in the European Union alone, 500,000 girls and women live with FGM [...]
CAIRO- Tibet’s spiritual leader in Exile has questioned the future of the Dalai Lama’s position, an official statement from the Dalai Lama’s website stated on Saturday. According to the statement the current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, has called for a meeting with other Tibetan Buddhism leaders to take place in 15 years. ‘When I am [...]
A decade after 9/11, a new poll by the Pew Global Attitudes Project shows that 48 per cent of Americans continue to think relations between Muslims and Westerners are poor. In Muslim-majority countries, those numbers are generally higher, according to the same study. This data points to continuing fear, misperceptions and stereotypes among both Muslims [...]
ISLAMABAD: The 11th of September 2001 was a hectic day at work for me in Islamabad. Just back from a holiday in the United States, I was catching up on work when my son called to give me the news that a plane had just hit the World Trade Center in New York. I recalled [...]
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