Islam

Saudi Arabia eyes field work guidelines for religious police

By | 2012-10-04T13:44:59-04:00 October 4th, 2012|Islam|

Saudi Arabia’s Consultative Assembly has urged the kingdom’s religious police authority, commonly referred to as the Hai’a, to set up field guidelines for its members and define the cases in which they can intervene to enforce the Islamic law.   Members of the Hai’a, who often patrol the streets to enforce dress codes, gender separation

Top Egyptian cleric urges global ban on Islam attacks

By | 2012-09-16T20:42:05-04:00 September 16th, 2012|Islam|

Egypt’s top Muslim cleric on Saturday called for an international ban on all forms of attacks against Islam, after a provocative film sparked violent protests in the Middle East and North Africa.   Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb, grand imam of Cairo’s Al-Azhar, the highest seat of Sunni Muslim learning, underlined “the need for an international resolution

Shi’ite, Sunni in Televised Brawl on Egyptian TV

By | 2012-09-16T20:10:53-04:00 September 16th, 2012|Islam|

Representatives of rival Muslim streams showed viewers of Egypt's Al-Shabab TV just how disunited the Muslim world in a program streamed via internet on Sunday, September 9.   Sunni activist Walid Ismail attacked Shi'ite activist Mahmoud Ahmad Mahmoud, after the latter made less-than-complementary claims regarding his wife's morals. This followed a claim by Ismail that

Arabs Try To Burn Books of Psalms on Mount of Olives

By | 2012-09-16T12:51:09-04:00 September 16th, 2012|Islam|

Three Arab youths were caught Saturday night desecrating Jewish holy books at a sacred Jewish cemetery in Jerusalem. The vandals were in the process of trying to burn several Tehillim – volumes of the Book of Psalms authored by the Biblical King David – at the ancient Mount of Olives Cemetery.   The three perpetrators,

Jewish Life in Egypt – after 3,000 Years, the End

By | 2012-09-04T13:16:02-04:00 September 4th, 2012|Islam|

rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has extinguished the last flame of Jewish life in the country. The magnificent Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue in Alexandria, where a synagogue has stood since Hellenistic times, will not hold Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur services, because authorities have banned them.    This spells the end of Jewish life

Hamas MP: ‘Annihilate Jews and Americans’

By | 2012-08-26T22:51:30-04:00 August 26th, 2012|Islam|

A senior Hamas legislator has widened the usual call to kill Jews and includes all Americans on his hit list for jihadists.   A video of his speech was translated and uploaded by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).Deputy Speaker of Hamas Parliament Sheik Ahmad Bahr appeared on Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV while addressing a

People Thirst for Jews’ Blood

By | 2012-08-09T01:08:32-04:00 August 9th, 2012|Islam|

        Hamas's Al Aqsa TV has aired sermons by an Egyptian cleric in which he says that people he meets everywhere "thirst for the blood of the Jews." The video was monitored and translated by MEMRI.   {youtube}V69DfFyiyEg&feature=player_embedded{/youtube}   The sermons by cleric Sallah Sultan, who founded the Ohio-based American Center for