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Al-Qassam: History of an Icon of Resistance

This November, 2009, Arabs and Palestinians are commemorating Sheikh Izzedin Al-Qassam's 74th anniversary. This article sheds light on the life and history of one of the major icons of resistance and liberation movements in Palestine and the Arab world...

Minarets in the Land of Freedom (Part two)

In his recently published book Les Minarets de la Discorde. Eclairages sur un Débat Suisse et Européen, which discusses the controversy around minarets in Switzerland, Dr. Patrick Haenni gives an overview of the current debates on Islam in the West...

Minarets in the Land of Freedom (Part One)

In his recently published book, Les Minarets de la Discorde. Eclairages sur un Débat Suisse et Européen, which discusses the controversy around minarets in Switzerland, Dr. Patrick Haenni gives an overview of the current debates on Islam in the West...

Fort Hood Tragedy... Muslim Soldiers Speak Out

WASHINGTON – Several Muslims who have served or are currently serving in the military say the tragic deaths of 13 soldiers in Fort Hood, Texas, at the hands of Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan is an individual action that does not represent them, insisting that Muslims remain an integral part of the US military...

Culture of Tolerance in Islam

Bigotry is one of the most serious matters that can easily sow division and enmity and set the fire of war within societies and even among members of the same society or country...

From Holy War to Holy Peace

Peace is holy, war is not. Nevertheless, holy war is today a main theme in the Western media. Wrongly seen by Westerners as an Islamic innovation, for Muslims it is a bitter reminder of the Crusades of the 12th and 13th centuries...

Mauritanian Islamists “A Comprehensive Enhancement Project for the Presidency”

Minefields in Obama’s Cairo Speech

It is hard to treat with indifference President Obama’s speech in Cairo on 4 June, 2009.The speech itself seemed to represent an ostensible departure from the virulent anti-Islam rhetoric which very much characterized the general discourse of the former Bush administration. Needless to say, the calumnies and canards concocted by Bush against the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims; using the term "Islamofascists" and claiming that Muslims "hate our freedoms" effectively put the United States..

Swine Flu Panic in Egypt

The authorities had stepped up surveillance measures at airports, ports and terminals to prevent the arrival of the disease using thermal monitors that detect people with high fever, an early symptom. ..

Did Obama Fail to Deliver?

In one of the most anticipated events in Islam-West relations, Barack Obama, the US president, addressed Muslims from Cairo University in Egypt on June 4...

Obama Told to Support Mideast Democracy

WASHINGTON — As US President Barack Obama readies to fly to Egypt for a long-awaited speech to the Arab and Muslim world, human rights activists, experts and politicians are asking him to remain faithful to promoting rights and democracy in the region...

Obama Told to Support Mideast Democracy

"We believe that it would be a terrible mistake if the new administration, in its attempt to distance itself from the failed policies of the Bush administration, would go back to the previously tried and failed policies of supporting oppressive regimes and dictators," Radwan Masmoudi, President of the Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy (CSID), told IslamOnline.net. ..

Tariq Ramadan: Radical Reform

In his new book “Radical Reform”, Tariq Ramadan promises his readers to find the outcome of twenty years of readings, writings and visits; the accumulating experiences in navigating the world of “Islamic sciences”, “Modernity” and “Muslim majority and minority societies”...

Swine Flu and Politics in Egypt

Is Egypt’s decision to slaughter all its pigs a wise decision to combat the swine flu virus? Does it have any effect on stopping a viral infection on the verge of becoming a pandemic but which has so far not reached Egyptian grounds? Asking these question in light of global health recommendations as well as other countries’ efforts to stop the spread of the virus might help us put Egypt’s reaction in perspective. ..

Obama & Muslim World: Changing Course

Some right-wing Americans are critical of President Barak Obama’s approach toward the Muslim world; some Arabs are skeptic, on the other hand. But there is a consensus among both sides that it’s early to judge; and the world is watching and waiting for Obama’s policies toward the Muslim world to crystallize and bear fruit..

Boycott of Egypt Copts Un-Islamic: Muslims

An online campaign for boycotting Coptic businesses in Egypt is drawing fire from scholars and the Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s biggest opposition group, as a violation of the tenets of Islam and a threat to social fabric. ..

Muslim Scholar Unwelcome: Obama Lawyer

Although it has made a break with many of George Bush’s controversial, self-declared war on terror policies and has promised to reach out to Muslims, the Obama administration has decided to back a Bush decision to deny one of Europe’s leading Muslim intellectuals entry...

Saudis and the Web

The internet service was introduced in Saudi Arabia on Dec. 15, 1998 by a decision from the Ministerial Council. This date symbolizes the beginning of a new era in the history of the Kingdom – an era characterized by technological progress..

Egypt’s Bombings

The recent blast in Khan Al-Khalili next to the historic Al-Hussein Mosque, which killed a French student and injured roughly 20 tourists, seemed to conceal more than it revealed when it comes to Egypt’s internal political and social dimensions...

GERMANY-1933 vs ISRAEL- 2009

In the early 1930s, many in Germany saw the Nazis as the wave for the future. Thousands of new members joined the Nazi party, giving absolute allegiance to the Fuhrer, Adolph Hitler. In the spring of 1932, with six million unemployed, chaos in Berlin, starvation and ruin as well as the threat of Marxism, and a very uncertain future, the masses turned to Hitler by the millions..