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Oct 09 2004

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British imam on Kenneth Bigley�and how European Muslims should respond to hostage situations

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A British imam on Kenneth Bigley�and how European Muslims should respond to hostage situations

Too late, but still worthwile: Hussain met with NEWSWEEK�s Marie Valla in a London mosque today to discuss his mission and how European Muslims should respond to the hostage situation.

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Sep 23 2004

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People work in mysterious ways: from pop to peace to national security threat

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ReligionResearch Islam Blog

Sometimes something and some persons are bigger than life. One of those people is Stephen
Demetre Georgiou, son of a Greek Cypriot father and a Swedish mother who changed his name into Cat Steven when his music career took off in the 1960s and 1960s. And who again changed his name, into Yusuf Islam, when he converted to islam and started to work for all kinds of peacefull and charity things, leaving the world of sex, drugs and rock’n roll behind. And now the the same man is a threat to US national security and therefore not allowed to enter the country.

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Sep 20 2004

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A rare look at secretive Muslim Brotherhood in America

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Chicago Tribune: A rare look at secretive Brotherhood in America

“Muslims divided on Brotherhood

A group aiming to create Islamic states worldwide has established roots here, in large part under the guidance of Egypt-born Ahmed Elkadi
By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Sam Roe and Laurie Cohen
Tribune staff reporters

September 19, 2004

Over the last 40 years, small groups of devout Muslim men have gathered in homes in U.S. cities to pray, memorize the Koran and discuss events of the day.

But they also addressed their ultimate goal, one so controversial that it is a key reason they have operated in secrecy: to create Muslim states overseas and, they hope, someday in America as well.
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Sep 19 2004

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Cyber-nightmare

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Forbes.com: Cyber-nightmare

“Four years ago al Qaeda operatives were taking flying lessons. Today they are honing a new skill: hacking. How much damage could a cyberterrorist do to an electric grid or the Internet? We don’t know yet.”

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Sep 15 2004

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Christenen bidden in moskee

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Katholiek Nieuwsblad ~ Kort

Christenen bidden in moskee

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Sep 14 2004

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Al-Khansa - Helping women balance family life, jihad

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Asia Times - Asia’s most trusted news source for the Middle East

Helping women balance family life, jihad by Sudha Ramachandran. Al-Khansa seems to be the buzz-word these days. “A new women’s magazine, al-Khansa, has recently been launched on the Internet. In itself, this is an unremarkable event, but unlike other women’s magazines, this one is likely to evoke immense interest among terrorism and counter-terrorism experts rather than the target readership themselves - Muslim women. ”
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“In fact, al-Khansa exploits the woman’s traditional role in family and society as mother and nurturer of her children to get them to play a larger role in the jihad.” […]
“Radical Islamist groups are of course not the only ones calling on women to sacrifice their children for the cause. Governments, too, expect women to cheerfully send off their sons and husbands to the battlefield “to die for the flag, protect territory and the country’s national security” and to not grieve when they are killed. Only their effort to draw women into war is more subtle and sophisticated. “

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Sep 07 2004

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CULTURE: Osama’s greatest enemy: Hassan the heartthrob.

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STLtoday - News - Columnists

“A pan-Arab version of “American Idol” shows how powerful pop-culture can be in undermining terrorism.

Osama bin Laden and fellow-traveling Islamist radicals believe that Western culture defiles their belief system and that unless it is stopped, it will obliterate what they regard as the one true way of life.

They’re right. “

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Sep 06 2004

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The Charter of Human Rights and Freedom Given by Islam more than 1400 years ago

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The Charter of Human Rights and Freedom Given by Islam more than 1400 years ago

The Charter of Human Rights and Freedom Given by Islam more than 1400 years ago; This sermon was delivered on the Ninth day of Dhul-Hijjah, 10 A.H. ( 623AD) at Mount Arafat in Makkah on the day of Hajj. This is also known as the Farewell Pilgrimage. I don’t know if this is authentic, but it is interesting anyway.
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Sep 03 2004

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Ze houden niet alleen de journalisten maar onze hele gemeenschap in gijzeling

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Trouw, religie & filosofie - Frankrijk / Geen hoofddoekje maar haarbanden

“Maar toen kwam de eis van het Islamitische leger in Irak: intrekking van de wet, anders staat twee gegijzelde journalisten hetzelfde lot te wachten als hun Italiaanse collega Baldoni, de dood. Onmiddellijk begreep de Franse moslimgemeenschap welk enorm gevaar hierin school voor haar imago. De moslims zouden weer gedemoniseerd worden, zonder onderscheid tussen fundamentalisten en doodgewone geloofsbelijders. Zoals Abdallah Zekri van het landelijke moslimorgaan CFCM het zei: ,,Ze houden niet alleen die twee journalisten maar onze hele gemeenschap in gijzeling.” De imams gooiden het roer om. In plaats van tot protest riepen zij de schoolmeisjes de afgelopen dagen op tot terughoudendheid. Met succes.”

Frankrijk / Geen hoofddoekje maar haarbanden

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Aug 26 2004

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Tariq Ramadan Islamic Scholar denied U.S. visa

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CNN.com - Muslim scholar denied U.S. visa - Aug 24, 2004

Muslim scholar denied U.S. visa

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Aug 25 2004

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De heilige oorlog op internet

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Trouw, nieuws & achtergronden - Nieuwe media - Sites - De heilige oorlog op internet

De heilige oorlog op internet
door Eildert Mulder
2004-08-25 - lezersreacties op dit artikel (5)

In Trouw een artikel van Mulder over de website Islamic Minbar (http://www.islamicminbar.com): “Bloeddorst, verpakt in vroomheid, zet de toon op de website Islamic Minbar Beslist een aanrader voor het ministerie van defensie, dit internetplatform. Er komt ook iemand aan het woord die wellicht Bin Laden is. ”

In de reacties wordt opgemerkt dat hij wellicht ook eens had moeten kijken naar soortgelijke christelijke sites. Zonder meer een terechte opmerking, ook de vergelijking met Hindu-sites zou wel eens interessant kunnen zijn. De retoriek die grotendeels vergelijkbaar is, zal dan opvallen. Het heeft geen enkele zin, ��n losse site te bekijken. Je moet het grotere plaatje zien. Dan zie je dat er erg veel conservatieve en soms salafistische zijn die een soort halal en haram islam overdragen: iets is goed of slecht en er is geen tussenweg (volgens deze moslim dan) en degene die voor het slechte kiest is een afvallige (op de meest radicale sites). Tegelijkertijd, en dat is wat paradoxaal, zul je zien dat iedereen die actief is op de fora en msn-groepen een eigen islam maakt, met eigen fatwa’s (die meestal de praktijk weerspiegelen en niet andersom). De schrijver had het ook dichterbij kunnen zoeken voor een heilige oorlog, namelijk die van de MSN-groep de Laatste Kruistocht tegen tal van Marokkaanse en islamitische sites. Wil je echt iets weten over islam in cyberspace kun je het beste gaan naar http://www.virtuallyislamic.com en de bijbehoren blog.

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Aug 23 2004

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The Olympics: Throwing their hijabs into the five rings

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Religion News Blog : Throwing their hijabs into the five rings

I nice article, logged by ReligionNewsBlog.com, on muslim women and the olympics. “ATHENS, Greece - Robina Muqimyar began her track and field training for the 2004 Olympics running on the cracked concrete of the stadium where Afghanistan’s Taliban regime had executed scores of people, sometimes hanging their bodies on soccer goal posts.”

Throwing their hijabs into the five rings

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Aug 17 2004

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Muslims issue anti-terror guide

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Religion News Blog : Muslims issue anti-terror guide

I was looking for a source on this newsitem when I heard of it for the first time; all postings I read on other (dutch) sites were without reference. This one was weblogged by ReligionNewsBlog.com and the original source is the BBC.
“”Jihad is a noble struggle to defend one’s homeland from external aggression, terrorism is indiscriminate targeting of innocents for some other cause.”

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Aug 15 2004

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Spiked on Impotence and Islam on the brain

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spiked-politics | Article | Islam on the brain
A friendly advice for people like

Ebru Omar, Geert Wilders, Theo van Gogh, Ayaan Hirsi Ali
en Bernadette de Wit
(niet dat ik ook maar enige hoop of verwachting heb dat ze hier komen) to read the article below. Perhaps that their sometimes very explicit sexual thoughts on islam, will come to a rest or even a more sophisticated contribution the whole debate.

“The spectre of the ‘Islamic threat’ is really a projection of a Western sense of impotence. It is perhaps a sense of the flimsiness of their own values that leads some to imagine that the sword of Islam is hanging over their heads”

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Aug 10 2004

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Islamic Banking in Britain

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Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | FSA approves Islamic bank

Michael Hanlon, an ex-Barclays executive appointed to run the new bank, said: “As Islamic banking operates without the use of interest, the products that we offer our customers are structured in a different way to those in conventional banks.”

FSA approves Islamic bank

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Jun 03 2004

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Moslimbeweging bijeen op veluwe

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Moslimbeweging bijeen op veluwe - telegraaf.nl [Binnenland]

Aanhangers van de Ahmadiyya-beweging komen naar Nunspeet, waar kalief Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad zijn opwachting zal maken. De beweging wordt door de meerderheid in de islam afgewezen als een ketterse stroming.

Lees verder voor het verhaal uit de Telegraaf en enkele relevante links.
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May 30 2004

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NRC Handelsblad - Buitenland: Turkse president vetoot wet

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NRC Handelsblad - Buitenland: Turkse president vetoot wet

Turkse president vetoot wet

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ISTANBUL, 29 MEI. De Turkse president, Sezer, heeft gisteren zijn veto uitgesproken over de nieuwe onderwijswet die het voor leerlingen van religieuze middelbare scholen gemakkelijker zou maken om universitair onderwijs te volgen. Volgens de president is de wet in strijd met het principe van het secularisme, waar de Turkse Republiek op is gegrondvest. Volgens de president zou het aantal leerlingen van de religieuze imam hatip-scholen, dat volgens hem nu al ,,excessief hoog” is, door deze wet alleen nog maar stijgen.
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May 27 2004

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Nobel laureate warns of equating Islam, terrorism

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TimesDispatch.com | Nobel laureate warns of equating Islam, terrorism

Nobel laureate warns of equating Islam, terrorism

BY JAMIE C. RUFF
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER

Ebadi points (among other things) to the fact that by speaking of ‘islamic terrorism’ we are actually supporting the islamic radicals in their claim that they fight a holy war against infidels.
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May 27 2004

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Islam dress ban ‘breached’ rights

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BBC NEWS | UK | Islam dress ban ‘breached’ rights

I am not going to post every little headscarf affair here, but this is one is slightly different that the ones in Holland and France, because of the uniform schoolclothing in the UK.
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May 11 2004

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Bernard Lewis Interview

Bernard Lewis talks about his seventy years spent studying the Middle East—and his thoughts on the region’s future
Atlantic Unbound | Interviews | 2004.04.29
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