In Egypt, sexual harassment grows Parliament is expected to consider a measure in its next session that wouldcriminalize harassment, which 83 percent of women say they face. By Liam Stack | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor from the September 23, 2008 edition Cairo – As May Zayed gets ready to leave for her downtown […]
(comments and other questions in COLOR are the opinion of the blogger, not in the original article) www.filebuzz.com SECTOR SERVICE: As Islamic finance booms globally, Egypt needs to play catch-up By Pascale Nader First Published: August 27, 2008 CAIRO: A convergence between two systems of finance is taking place in the global arena: The […]
(Please note, the Muslim Brotherhood are responsible for Islamic Finance as well. This is a very important issue of shariah and the USA) comment by Allyson Rowen Taylor hat tip-http://ztruth.typepad.com/ztruth/2008/08/is-there-a-muslim-brotherhood-in-the-us.html Many Americans are aware of the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood into the United States. There’s a new interview with the deputy leader of the Egyptian […]
Fears over organ transplant ban Wednesday, 20th August 2008. 3:02pm By: Roberto Sanchez Guevara. A decision by the Egyptian Doctors’ Union to ban organ transplants between Christians and Muslims has raised fears that it will encourage greater sectarian tension. “All Egyptian have the same blood, and if the reason for the measure is to prohibit […]
http://www.panoramio.com/photos/original/2074563.jpg this is the “women’s only” beach in Egypt away form the lurking eyes of Men, and thier unbridled desires. This looks like “Breach Prison” to me. comments by Allyson Rowen Taylor MARINA, Egypt — Islamic hymns fade out giving way to Arabic pop music as women remove their veils to reveal bikinis or […]
http://www.globalaircraft.org/photos/planephotos/e-2_1.jpg Why are we empowering our enemies? Egypt is not a real allie to the USA, and is part of the global problem of Shariah. The Christian Copts, Women, and others have suffered and still suffer with the laws of Islam taking over Egypt. Has the USA lost their minds? We need to fight […]
Egyptian Internet measures criticized as censorship http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/Freedom_Error.gif Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said that the Egyptian government has imposed a new measure obliging Internet cafés to gather and keep certain personal information from visitors who use their services Egypt, Politics
Vivian Salama Last Updated: July 10. 2008 9:04PM UAE / July 10. 2008 5:04PM GMT Shoppers wander into H&M at City Stars Mall, in Cairo, Egypt. Victoria Hazou for the National When news broke that the Swedish retailer, H&M, was to open in Cairo in May, dozens of groups instantly formed on Facebook, the social […]
By TMO | July 24, 2008 Courtesy New America Media, News Analysis, Jalal Ghazi Editor’s Note: As oil prices rise it’s easy to conclude that Middle East countries are awash in money. But the rising cost is creating great wealth and misery writes Arab media monitor Jalal Ghazi. Ghazi is the associate producer of the […]
Almost two-thirds of Egyptian men harass women and believe their victims bring it on themselves when they wear tight and revealing clothes, according to a study released over the weekend by the Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights in Cairo. (Illustrative photo) Photo: Courtesy Slideshow: Pictures of the week http://tinyurl.com/6d5nsv The study, titled “Clouds […]
Jack Shenker in Cairo The Guardian, Monday July 21, 2008 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/21/egypt.saudiarabiawww.freesignage.com Duke’s pub in downtown Cairo is supposed to provide a familiar slice of English comfort amid the noise and pollution of the Arab world’s biggest city. There are soft green leather furnishings and a beautifully polished oak bar, but the most essential ingredient – […]
Women walking in downtown Cairo. Egyptian women harassed on a daily basis Almost half of Egyptian women are sexually harassed on a daily basis with more than half of Egyptian men admitting lewd behaviour, the Egyptian Centre for Women’s Rights said. The group polled 2,020 people — including men and foreign women — in Cairo, […]
Iranians, Egyptians, Turks: Contrasting Views on Sharia TO SEE MORE CLEARLY CLICK ON THE IMAGE http://www.gallup.com/poll/108724/Iranians-Egyptians-Turks-Contrasting-Views-Sharia.aspx A Gallup Poll conducted in Iran in 2007 shows a majority of residents think that Sharia, the body of Islamic rules and principles that […]
Iranian film hits raw Egyptian nerveBy Sami Moubayed DAMASCUS – A new film from Iran, Assassination of a Pharaoh , tells volumes about how strong indoctrination is in Tehran and how much it sometimes overpowers and blinds pragmatism. The movie, which recently aired on Iranian TV, is about former Egyptian president Anwar al-Sadat. It labels […]
http://www.aina.org/news/20080707125159.htm CAIRO — Under pressure from fundamentalist forms of Islam and bursts of sectarian violence, the most populous Christian community in the Middle East is seeking safety by turning inward, cutting day-to-day social ties that have bound Muslim to Christian in Egypt for centuries, members of both communities say. Attacks this summer on monks and […]
Female Islamic Notary Stays Home as Males Argue Over Her Job By JOSEPH MAYTON (Middle East Times) Published: July 04, 2008 The chairman of Egypt’s notary committee is flatly against having a woman among their ranks, saying the appointment of Amal Soliman as a notary to approve marriages will “afflict Egyptian history.” Other women – […]
Protest against Sexual Harrassment By Ramadan Al Sherbini, Correspondent Published: June 29, 2008, 20:11 http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Egypt/10224719.html Cairo: Five months after a provincial court appointed her as Egypt’s first woman marriage registrar, Amal Sulaiman Afifi believes her battle for recognition is far from over. “I cannot do the job because the Ministry of Justice has not […]
EGYPT: Exams and suicide The school exam season in Egypt has turned to scenes of suicide and privilege. Worried that he bombed his math final, 16-year-old Hassan Mohamed Youssry recently hanged himself in Cairo. Mirhan Hany Salem, 18, jumped from a sixth-floor balcony in Port Said the morning she was to take […]
Egypt fatwa orders oil money for the poor Jun 15, 2008 Hat tip-LGF http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hGA5BJbejVBtkvH7W1vqxUe7cGEQ CAIRO (AFP) — An Islamic ruling that Egypt should give some of its oil and gas wealth to the people has ratcheted up the pressure on the government, already faced with rising popular discontent over food prices. The Islamic […]
Mohsen Allam June 2008 Facing the Consequences The Ministry of Health’s new mandatory uniform has munaqaba nurses second-guessing their career By Hossam Zaater In March, the Ministry of Health passed a seemingly innocuous decree, one that creates and mandates a uniform code for nurses in government hospitals. The […]
By Ramadan Al Sherbini, Correspondent Published: June 09, 2008, 23:36 Cairo: Mustafa, a father of three girls, is proud of having his children circumcised, and vows to do the same if he gets a new baby girl. Under a new law passed by the Egyptian Parliament this week, female circumcision, also known as female genital […]
Women’s mosque row erupts in Egypt By Ramadan Al Sherbini, Correspondent Published: May 27, 2008, 00:59 Cairo: Theologians and secularists in Egypt are up in arms over a request from women to have their own mosques. The clergy was quick to dismiss the demand as a fad but secularists warned against turning down […]
Cairo hotel By Magdi Abdelhadi BBC News, Cairo A decision by the Saudi owner of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Cairo to ban the sale of alcohol and destroy millions of dollars worth of beverages has sparked a debate in Egypt. The international company which runs the hotel has urged Sheikh Abdulaziz al-Brahim […]
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Wednesday, April 23, 20 http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2008/04/my-visit-to-egypt.html08 Women in Egypt living under Shariah My Visit to Egypt By Jesse Petrilla I have recently returned to the United States from Egypt where I was on a fact-finding mission to see what life is like for non-Muslims who live under Islam. What […]
EGYPT: A battle over female circumcision http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/03/egypt-a-battle.html (WARNING-GRAPHIC PHOTO OF WHAT THE RESULTS OF THIS PROCEDURE IN PHOTO AT BOTTOM OF ARTICLE-DO NOT VIEW IF YOU ARE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH A VIEW OF A VICTIM OF THIS PROCEDURE) Islamists and conservative clerics are fighting proposed legislation in the Egyptian parliament that would criminalize female […]
Ex-Muslims in Egypt Blocked from Declaring ConversionWednesday 26 March 2008 By Peter Lamprecht http://www.spcm.org/Journal/spip.php?breve10760 ISTANBUL, March 26 (Compass Direct News) – Christian-born converts to Islam in Egypt wishing to return to their former faith have found their way blocked by an appeal before the country’s Supreme Constitutional Court. Judge Muhammad Husseini asked Egypt’s top […]
The Veiling of Sculptures in a Europe-wide campaign Anonymous Group of Democratic and Free Thinking (Press Release) March 07 2008 Veiling of public statues at the International Women’s Day Throughout the night on 6th of March we have successfully continued our statue veiling campaign. With this reappearing action, we want to inspire the […]
Egypt ‘torturing HIV sufferers’ Hat tip-Solomonia Blog HIV-positive Egyptian men are tortured and chained to hospital beds while awaiting unfair homosexuality trials, a human rights group has claimed. Human Rights Watch (HRW) decried the “ignorance and injustice” of a case in which a group of arrested men were given HIV tests without their consent. They […]
‘No one leaves Islam,’ judge rules Egyptian court bans convert to Christianity from changing ID cardPosted: February 1, 2008 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2008 WorldNetDaily. com Egypt No one ever leaves Islam, according to a judge in Egypt who has cited Islamic religious law in rejecting a request from a Muslim convert to Christianity to […]
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