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Hope for Gaza: Send in the Clowns

"For the first time ever, we’ll be part of a coordinated effort to push open the borders by land and by sea! On June 5, I will join Codepink: Women for Peace, the Coalition of Women for Peace (Israel) and more than 100 American and Israeli peace activists -- Jews, Muslims, Christians and everything in between. We will set up an encampment on the Israeli border calling for a lifting of the siege. We will be joined by over 150 people trying to enter Gaza through Egypt and others coming b..

Hope arrives at the Rafah crossing, on way to Gaza

The Italian senate members Fernando Rossi, who leads the convoy, revealed that there were 12 European lawmakers from Italy, Greece, Switzerland, Ireland, and Britain in addition to 160 European activities from different EU countries who have joined the trip, and that they were now in Port Said city to help deliver the assistance to Gaza Strip, especially to Palestinian citizens who need special care. ..

WHO demands Israel to immediately lift its blockade on Gaza

The resolution which was issued by the organization at a meeting of the 193 member states held last week in Geneva stressed that the Israeli closure of Gaza crossing was the reason for the serious shortage of medicines and medical supplies inside the Strip. ..

Extremist Jewish groups make prayers to the south of the Aqsa Mosque

Extremist Jewish groups had announced ahead of this anniversary their intentions to carry out activities to mark the occasion especially around the Aqsa Mosque, the Buraq wall and Jewish settlements in the old city. ..

UN probe committee slams Israel for lack of cooperation

South African judge and former international war crimes prosecutor, Richard Goldstone, who is leading the UN Human Rights Council mission to probe Israel’s war crimes in Gaza, complained at the lack of positive response from the Israeli government regarding cooperation in the investigation. ..

Qaradawi: Muslims’ support for Palestine is a must and not a favor

"We should gather together all those supporting the Palestinian issue from the East and from the West whether they are Arabs, Muslims or Christians, international figures or institutions if we want this issue to win the battle against the occupation", asserted Qaradawi as he addressed the International Popular Congress for Supporting Palestine. ..

New album of Yusuf Islam released

He was so encouraged by the response to An Other Cup that he decided to do another album. "It was really fantastic to return to doing what I do best - communication and writing and speaking from my heart - rather than having people interpret or misread or dilute what I’m saying. I can go straight through the record to reach people." ..

Growing in Crisis

Although the Islamist participants at the roundtable conceded that they had failed to promote democratic reforms in their countries through democratic mechanisms, they still maintained that participation in the political process is the only option and that they remain strategically committed to this. If this is the case, then the alternative of withdrawing from political participation and reverting to violence, which has reportedly been gaining currency on the fringes of these parties..

Miliband Calls for Fair Engagement with Islamists

“To broaden the coalition and win consent, we need to understand the Muslim world better, or we will risk undermining the force of our own argument, as I have sometimes done when using the labels ‘moderate’ and ‘extremist’; we need to hold fast to our own values and support those who seek to apply them, or we will be guilty of hypocrisy; and we need shared effort to address the grievances, socio-economic and political, that are perceived to keep Muslims down, and in fact do”, said Mili..

Interview with Tariq Ramadan,

ITariq Ramadan is considered by many one of Europe"s most influential intellectuals. In this interview with Claudia Mende, the Swiss Muslim academic talks about his understanding of European citizenship, his concept of sharia, and the shortcomings of a literal interpretation of the Koran

n your current book, "Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics and Liberation", you argue that women should be more actively involved in mosques and in theological debates..

1,350 Experts and Leaders Urge President Obama to Support HR and Democracy in the Middle East

Improving relations between the United States and Middle Eastern nations is not simply a matter of changing some policies here and there. For too long, U.S. policy toward the Middle East has been fundamentally misguided. The United States, for half a century, has frequently supported repressive regimes that routinely violate human rights, and that torture and imprison those who dare criticize them and prevent their citizens from participation in peaceful civic and political activiti..

Hamas: Statements of Netanyahu and Obama on Jerusalem, RoR old and rejected

The Hamas Movement has described Thursday the statements of Israeli premier Binyamin Netanyahu of considering the occupied city of Jerusalem as the indivisible capital of "Israel" as "old" and rejected by the Palestinians...

Criminalizing criticism of Israel

To keep American minds captive, the Lobby is working to ban as anti-semitic any truth or disagreeable fact that pertains to Israel. It is permissible to criticize every other country in the world, but it is anti-semitic to criticize Israel, and anti-semitism will soon be a universal hate-crime in the Western world. ..

Huge crowd march for assasinated Kashmiri leaders

50 thousands of people shouting "we want freedom" gathered in Indian Kashmir’s biggest city to mark the anniversaries of the assassinations of their leader and a Muslim cleric...

Israeli military attack on Beit Hanoun wounds Palestinian citizen

Israeli air raids were also carried out at night Tuesday on the Palestinian-Egyptian borders, south of Gaza, without any reported injuries and there are expectations that there will be more aerial attacks. ..

Postponement of the appeal on the refusal to release 13 MB members in military courts

Naser El-Hafi (A member of the Defence body) stressed that three of the ones referred to military courts have been subject to grave injustice as they were supposed to be released after they spent three quarter the period of the sentence, however the administrative bodies refuse that and they will spend 65 days in Tora prison without being released, while those charged with drug trafficking, looting public funds or forgery are usually being released after spending three quarter of the p..

Muslims, Christians in Jerusalem condemn the IOA desecration of Muslim shrines

Moreover, Khater highlighted that the IOA atrocities in the city are tantamount to war crimes from the point of view of the international law as the Israeli occupation policy of demolishing Palestinian homes in Jerusalem, and of leaving them in the wild persisted. ..

Egypt: new comic crimes written by the state security Blogger in custody, on charges of exploitation

It is normal for a State Security officer to tell lies, but when the Public Prosecution believes this lie and approves to imprison a young blogger for exploitation of the democratic climate, this is black comedy, what democracy did this young man exploit ..

Looking Forward: An Integrated Strategy for Supporting Democracy and Human Rights in Egypt

Given longstanding American policy, the U.S. cannot be neutral on reform and human rights in Egypt. As a large stakeholder providing the Egyptian government with more than $1.5 billion in aid annually, the United States will, by default, be on the side of the authoritarian status quo if it does not demonstrate a commitment to the rights of the Egyptian people. On the other hand, the U.S. relationship with the Egyptian regime also serves American strategic interests, and any attempt to ..

"Hope" convoy members: Egyptian authorities hinder the arrival of aid to Gaza

Greek participant Nicholas Kraxtin told Quds Press news agency on Tuesday that the Egyptian authorities refused to allow the ship carrying the aid convoy to unload its cargo at the port of Alexandria and conditioned that the ship should dock at Port Said harbor. ..