Archives for 2005

From the Denver Post What began as a search for common ground between Congressman Tom Tancredo and Colorado interfaith leaders has disintegrated, with the two sides unable to agree on a joint statement about religion, terrorism and retaliation. For more than two months, the Colorado Republican and a group of Muslim, Christian and Jewish representatives […]

From Reuters: BAGHDAD – Once a bitter enemy, Iran is emerging as a trade lifeline for Iraq as Baghdad seeks to rebuild an economy shattered by years of sanctions, neglect and corruption under Saddam Hussein and since his overthrow. As Iraq picks up the pieces, it is becoming a key market for its neighbours, especially […]

From Reuters: CAIRO – The Egyptian authorities have released more than half of some 460 Muslim Brotherhood activists arrested in legislative elections this week, a leading member of the Islamist group said on Tuesday. The activists were rounded up before and during the elections in which the Muslim Brotherhood poses the strongest challenge to the […]

100 Sunni, Shiite, Kurdish leaders reach agreement at end of Arab League meeting. From the New Duranty Times: CAIRO – For the first time, Iraq’s political factions on Monday collectively called for a timetable for withdrawal of foreign forces, in a moment of consensus that comes as the Bush administration battles pressure at home to […]

But offer no real Islamic alternative. From the Washington Times: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Exploding buildings, booby-trapped cars and bloodied victims began appearing on Arab satellite television recently in daring dramas that deal with Islamic militancy in al Qaeda’s main breeding ground. The producers of the shows say they are another battleground in the […]

Madeleine Bunting believes that if British Muslims would just listen to Tariq Ramadan all their problems could be solved. (Oh, and there’s that little matter about infidel attachment to alcohol. It should be given up for the good of the community. It’s so “exclusionary.”) From the Guardian, with thanks to Interested. A year on from […]

From AlJazeera.Net: Iraqi politicians have saved a reconciliation conference in Cairo from collapse with compromise language saying all peoples have a right to resist, Sunni Arab politicians say. On Monday, all parties to the three-day meeting called by the Cairo-based Arab League agreed to the formula: “Resistance is a legitimate right of all peoples”, said […]

According to Alireza Jafardazeh, a spokesman for an Iranian opposition group, Iran has built dozens of underground tunnels and facilities for the construction of nuclear-capable missiles. From ABC News: Speaking this morning at the National Press Club, Jafarzadeh described an “extensive large-scale operation” for the development of nuclear-capable missiles “in the most sophisticated, hidden way” […]

MSNBC has an update on Zarqawi: A Pentagon source said that the military did have intelligence that indicated al-Zarqawi was meeting in a Mosul home with high-level Iraq in al-Qaida lieutenants. As soldiers closed in on the site, there was an exchange of small arms fire, then it appears that three al-Qaida suspects blew themselves […]

From the Community Newswire, with thanks to DP111. Shafeeq Sadiq, national co-ordinator of Islam Awareness Week, said: “We need to remember the positive spirit that embraced the nation, and especially the capital, after London won the Olympic bid. “It is with such optimism and hope that we will defeat terrorism.” Now in its 12th year, […]