Aljazeera.Net – Egypt cracks down on Brotherhood

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Aljazeera.Net – Egypt cracks down on Brotherhood
Egypt cracks down on Brotherhood

Monday 17 April 2006, 0:09 Makka Time, 21:09 GMT

The arrests happened in Assiut, 320km south of capital Cairo
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Police have detained 43 students at Assiut University in southern Egypt for suspected membership in the banned Muslim Brotherhood.

Mahmoud Hussein, the Assiut Brotherhood leader, said the arrests were part of the authorities’ “uninterrupted campaign of detentions”.

Sunday’s roundups brings to almost a 100 the number of Brotherhood members who have been detained since the beginning of March.

Mohammed Osama, a Brotherhood spokesman at its Cairo headquarters, as well as a Cairo police official speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed Sunday’s arrests. Charges have not yet been filed.

A Brotherhood student representative at Assiut University, who refused to give his name fearing police reprisal, said security men stormed students’ apartments in three residential areas at dawn and confiscated books and papers.

The Brotherhood representative at the university said there may be demonstrations if the detained students are not freed.

Targeting Brotherhood supporters

On Saturday, police detained 12 suspected members in the al-Sharqiyya and Behira provinces north of Cairo, the Brotherhood’s website and police said.

The arrests have focused on provinces where support for the group is strongest and in districts that elected group members to parliament in last year’s elections.

While officially outlawed, the Brotherhood put forward 150 candidates who ran as independents in the parliamentary vote late last year.

Candidates from the organisation won 88 seats in the 454-member parliament, increasing its presence more than fivefold in a violence-prone series of votes in which at least 10 people were killed.

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Aljazeera.Net – Second man dies in Egyptian unrest

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Again unrest in Egypt between Christians (Copts) and Muslims: Aljazeera.Net – Second man dies in Egyptian unrest:

Second man dies in Egyptian unrest

Sunday 16 April 2006, 14:55 Makka Time, 11:55 GMT

Clashes started again in front of Al-Quidissin church
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An Egyptian has died of wounds sustained during clashes between Copts and Muslims in the city of Alexandria as more communal violence marred Palm Sunday, medical sources and witnesses say.

Mustafa Meshaal, who was wounded in the unrest in the port city on Saturday, died of his wounds in hospital on Sunday, medical sources told AFP.

The violence started after an attack on Coptic worshippers in several churches in Alexandria on Friday that left one person dead and several wounded.

Several hundred Copts attended the funeral of 78-year-old Noshi Atta Girgis who was killed by a man using a knife on Friday.

Security sources said 45 people had been arrested following the violence after the funeral. A total of 22 people were injured in the fighting.

Hundreds of Copts attended
Noshi Atta Girgis’s funeral
The interior ministry said it had arrested Mahmoud Abdul Razik Salah Eddin Hussein, 25, the man suspected of Friday’s killing.

The ministry described him as “mentally unstable”.

The official MENA news agency, quoting security sources, said demonstrators “smashed the windscreens of a number of vehicles, burned two other vehicles and some shops”, blaming that unrest on “extremist elements”.

Fresh clashes

Witnesses said clashes erupted once again in front of Al-Quidissin church, following prayers marking the Orthodox Church’s Palm Sunday.

The church was one of the scenes of Friday’s attacks, which were the most serious incidents of sectarian violence since a protest by Muslims accusing an Alexandria church of hosting a play offensive to Islam left three dead in October.

Egypt’s Copts – the largest Christian community in the Middle East – account for an estimated 10% of the country’s 73 million inhabitants and complain of systematic discrimination and harassment.

Egypt’s Copts will mark Easter on April 23.

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The Muslim Postcolonial – A Counter-Perspective on Apostasy in Islam

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On The Muslim Postcolonial: Afghan Convert Controversy

A Counter-Perspective on Apostasy in Islam by Yoginder Sikand. I do not completely agree, but nevertheless worth reading.

Following close on the heels of the furore fuelled by the Danish cartoons another major controversy is now set to further complicate relations between the West and the Muslim world. This concerns the possible execution of an Afghan Muslim convert to Christianity, Abdul Rahman, for having changed his religion. The Western press has taken particular interest in the issue, and Western leaders, including of countries that have themselves been among the most heinous violators of human rights and backers of repressive regimes in the Muslim world, have sent urgent messages of protest to the Afghan government demanding that Abdul Rahman be spared.

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'South Park' creators banned from showing image of Islamic prophet | BonitaNews.com

Posted on April 17th, 2006 by martijn.
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‘South Park’ creators banned from showing image of Islamic prophet | BonitaNews.com
‘South Park’ creators banned from showing image of Islamic prophet

By By DAVID BAUDER, Associated Press

Friday, April 14, 2006

Banned by Comedy Central from showing an image of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, the creators of “South Park” skewered their own network for hypocrisy in the cartoon’s most recent episode.

The comedy — in an episode aired during Holy Week for Christians — instead featured an image of Jesus Christ defecating on President Bush and the American flag.

In an elaborately constructed two-part episode of their Peabody Award-winning cartoon, “South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker intended to comment on the controversy created by a Danish newspaper’s publishing of caricatures of Muhammad. Muslims consider any physical representation of their prophet to be blasphemous.

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‘South Park’ creators banned from showing image of Islamic prophet | BonitaNews.com

Posted on April 17th, 2006 by .
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‘South Park’ creators banned from showing image of Islamic prophet | BonitaNews.com
‘South Park’ creators banned from showing image of Islamic prophet

By By DAVID BAUDER, Associated Press

Friday, April 14, 2006

Banned by Comedy Central from showing an image of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, the creators of “South Park” skewered their own network for hypocrisy in the cartoon’s most recent episode.

The comedy — in an episode aired during Holy Week for Christians — instead featured an image of Jesus Christ defecating on President Bush and the American flag.

In an elaborately constructed two-part episode of their Peabody Award-winning cartoon, “South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker intended to comment on the controversy created by a Danish newspaper’s publishing of caricatures of Muhammad. Muslims consider any physical representation of their prophet to be blasphemous.

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