Monthly Archives: September 2010

The Arab League's secretary general Amr Moussa said on Friday negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians should be given a chance, but wondered whether Israel was ready for "real peace."

Leading Brotherhood members allege that the script expresses the views and policies of Egypt's powerful security apparatus.

Iran’s Basij forces and members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards surrounded the home of opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi on Friday to prevent him from joining an annual government-sponsored Palestinian solidarity rally, his website said.

Friday in Paris. A hidden camera shows streets blocked by huge crowds of Muslim worshippers and enforced by a private security force. PARIS -

Note to big companies hoping to tap into France's lucrative but long-neglected Muslim consumer market: Pitfalls may await, and not only in the form of complaints from the far-right.

U.S. President Barack Obama announced Wednesday afternoon he is optimistic his team would succeed in jumpstarting direct talks aimed at ending Israel’s “occupation” and leading to formation of a new Palestinian Authority country.

The federal government considers the Muslim group founded by Ground Zero Mosque leader Feisal Abdul Rauf to be a tax-exempt church. But federal records show the group obtained that status by claiming to hold prayer services for up to 500 people in a Manhattan apartment building that has no space to hold that many people.

The inauguration of a discotheque called Mecca in Spain infuriated Muslims in the country and raised questions about the position of Muslim workers offered jobs in the controversial place.

Morocco’s candid camera stirred controversy in religious circles and triggered the issuing of a fatwa that prohibits the show for alleged violation of Islamic principles.