Monthly Archives: April 2012

Today's Zaman

A Turkish proposal to establish a broadcasting watchdog agency among 57 Muslim countries was officially approved on Thursday at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) conference in Gabon’s capital, Libreville. The decision effectively empowers the OIC with new tools to promote broadcasting of a positive image of the Muslim world on member countries’ television channels. The OIC was established in 1969 to protect and promote the interests of Muslims worldwide.

Egypt’s Grand Mufti, Ali Gomaa, defends visit to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, says it was a personal, not an official visit.

Israelis are warned not to travel to Sinai due to an increased level of terror threat ahead of Remembrance Day and Independence Day.

Abu Qatada, a bin Laden lieutenant, continues to milk the judicial system in Europe.

Egyptian Islamists slammed Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa's visit to Jerusalem this week saying it defies a 'national position'

MPs drafted the legislation in response Mubarak spy chief Omar Suleiman’s decision to run for the presidency. Suleiman has since been disqualified on the grounds that he failed to secure enough voter endorsements to run. AL ARABIYA - AGENCIES Egypt’s military rulers have asked the constitutional court to rule on whether top officials from Hosni Mubarak’s

Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich told the one-day forum that extremism by Salafis had no place in Germany after a recent drive by the group to distribute 25 million German-language copies of the Quran.

Ground assaults and air strikes were reported in the Heglig region, as well as the three Southern states of Unity, Western and Northern Bahr al-Ghazal, he said, adding that the Southern army was “still in its positions.”