An ABC News/Washington Post poll suggested on Monday that a majority of Americans now believe the war in Iraq was not worth fighting. Of those questioned, 56% said the cost of the Iraq conflict outweighed its benefits. The poll suggested that while a slight majority believe the war has contributed to the long-term security of […]
20/12 nrk1 kl.22-2300, 2 del av programmet om Jens Bjørneboe
Authorities in the northen Nigerian state of Kano have extended an order for Muslim school pupils to wear Islamic dress to cover private as well as state schools, officials said Wednesday. Education commissioner Balaraba Bello Maitama told reporters that Muslim girls in 600 private schools in the state would be required to cover their heads […]
Increasing numbers of British Muslims have faced discrimination in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, a study by an Islamic group said on Thursday. Four out of five people surveyed by the Islamic Human Rights Commission said they had experienced discrimination, well up on the 45 percent figure reported […]
A Berlin-based Turkish imam, or Muslim spiritual leader, is being deported from Germany after he was accused of praising suicide attackers as heroes and inciting hatred against Americans and Jews, authorities said on Thursday. Imam Yakup Tasci, 58, who is based at Berlin’s Mevlana mosque, must leave the country by Jan. 15, Berlin’s Interior Ministry […]
Suspected Muslim militants killed a Buddhist village chief and an icecream vendor on Wednesday in Thailand’s south, where authorities expect a major attack to mark the first anniversary of the eruption of renewed violence there. A gunman on the back of a motorcycle pumped three bullets into the 52-year-old village headman in Narathiwat province, police […]
The censors at al-Azhar, Cairo’s centre of Islamic learning, have recommended the government ban a 19th century biography of the Prophet Mohammad by a scholar portrayed in the Arabic media as an ancestor of U.S. President George W. Bush. An al-Azhar official, who asked not to be named, said on Monday the ban applied to […]
Indonesian police said Tuesday they were searching for six men suspected of involvement in bombing attacks on Christian churches in the strife-torn province of Central Sulawesi on the weekend. Detectives had descriptions of the six assailants from witnesses of bomb and gun attacks on the Emanuel and Anugerah churches in the provincial capital Palu, said […]
A prominent Swiss-based Islamic scholar on Tuesday gave up plans to teach at a leading U.S. university after waiting in vain for a visa and accused the Bush administration of trying to silence him. Tariq Ramadan, an intellectual influential among Muslims throughout Europe, said he had sent a letter of resignation this week to University […]
France’s Council of State, the country’s highest administrative court, on Monday ordered the satellite company Eutelsat to stop broadcasts of Al-Manar television, the mouthpiece of the Lebanese Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah. France’s broadcast regulator, the Higher Audiovisual Council (CSA), put the case before the court after Al-Manar broadcast a statement November 23 by a speaker […]
