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USCIRF -- U.S. Government Advisory Body Concerned by Draft Egyptian Constitution

Hasty passage of the draft constitution concluded a contentious process.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The Egyptian Constituent Assembly on November 30 approved a draft constitution that includes problematic provisions limiting freedom of religion or belief for all Egyptians.

“The constitution was drafted without a balanced representation of all the Egyptian constituencies; as a result the religious freedom provisions of the draft constitution are deeply flawed.

CAIR Repudiates Egypt `Blasphemy` Death Sentences

CAIR had previously called on Muslims in the Middle East to ignore the distribution of the "trashy" anti-Islam film...

(WASHINGTON DC) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations, today repudiated death sentences handed down by an Egyptian court for charges linked to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims" that attacked the Prophet Muhammad.

An Egyptian court reportedly found the defendants, most of whom live in the US, guilty of harming national unity...

What`s Missing in Aljazeera`s Documentary

The program highlights all aspects of Nile but focuses on the two main rival countries, Egypt and Ethiopia.

(UGANDA) - A couple of days ago I was able to watch the Aljazeera documentary titled “Struggle over the Nile.”

My first attraction to the documentary stemmed from the fact that I am a denizen of Ethiopia from where flows, according to the documentary itself, 85 percent of the water that sustains the land of the Pharaoh’s.

War in Syria: No Sign of a Revolution Yet

It is quite ironical; but where do all conspiracy theorists go/vanish when we need them most?

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - While the world was not even watching and shortly after the Tunisian uprising ended, swiftly and quite unexpectedly actually, with the ousting of President Zin Elabdine Ben Ali, too many conspiracy theories began to hatch up all over the cyber space claiming that the Tunisian revolution has been choreographed by foreign/western powers and pulled off by secret agencies.

October 1973: the Arab-Israeli War Remembered

“Debunking the Israeli invincibility, under the nose of the Americans, was indeed President Sadat’s idea of how to win the military conflict in October 1973″

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Anwar el-Sadat the former Egyptian president (1970-1981) launched a daring military war against Israel to liberate the occupied land of the Sinai Peninsula in 1973.

His military commanders and valiant soldiers made an astonishing crossing of the Suez Canal and took over the impregnable Bar Lev line...

Anti-Islam film: the Coptic Brotherhood

“I like to call this new generation of Egypt’s Christians ‘the Coptic Brotherhood’ … for they adopt the same policy & tactics of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - There is a worldwide consensus that the now-notorious video clips of the anti-Islam film “innocence of Muslims” are extremely offensive, provocative and clumsily amateurish.

But at the same time there is almost a similar consensus that doesn’t consider the violent and demagogic Muslim reaction any less offensive and provocative.

Israeli Filmmaker Triggers a Bloody 9/11 in Benghazi & Cairo

The film is backed by U.S. pastor Terry Jones, who inflamed anger in the Muslim world in 2010 with plans to burn the Koran.

(CAIRO) - On the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, the American ambassador to Libya got killed; the Benghazi consulate set ablaze and moreover, the Al-Qaeda flag waved over the premises of the US embassy in Cairo.

This, as thousands of Muslims were outraged by a film, written and directed and financed by Israeli Jews, they say insulted their prophet.

Morsi`s Presence in Tehran: Reasons and Consequences

Agreement and consultations between two countries about security matters and regional problems can help them to overcome past misunderstandings,

(TEHRAN Iran Review) - Holding of the 16th summit meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Tehran is one of the biggest international events which Iran has hosted following the Islamic Revolution and is a good opportunity to promote Iran’s diplomatic might and reduce regional tensions.

Iran has, therefore, set its eyes on further expansion of cooperation among member states.

Hebrew Bible: Plagiarized Mythology and Defaced Monotheism

Many are the stories that were told in the Hebrew Bible, but the greatest story that is yet to be told is the story of the Hebrew Bible itself.

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - The relationship with gods/god has always been one of man’s oldest preoccupations, and still is till this very day.

And while it’s fair to assume that Modern day man owes his advancement in philosophy and science to ancient Greece and its earliest thinkers, it’s equally fair to give credence to the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia.

ISRAEL: Appeal in Favor of the Victims of Human Traffickers in the Sinai

The Assembly of the Catholic Ordinaries in the Holy Land launched a renewed appeal in favor of the victims of human traffickers in the Sinai.

(SALEM) - Refugees fleeing strife and death in the Sinai are increasingly falling victim to human traffickers.