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Protests Continue Against Mohammed Morsi in Egypt

Protests still rage in Egypt during the second anniversary of similar actions that swept former longtime Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak from power.   The rallies in the famed Tahrir Square have called for President Mohammed Morsi to step down from his post, with charges that he and the Muslim Brotherhood have betrayed the revolution and […]

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Protests Over the YouTube Film Innocence of Muslims Continues Across the World

Angry protests over the YouTube video Innocence of Muslims continue throughout the world with a government minister in Pakistan offering a $100,000 award to anyone who kills the maker of the video.

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Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Seeks to Pass Global Blasphemy Laws

Following the riots in Egypt and elsewhere after the publication of a YouTube video defaming Islam, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation seeks to make blasphemy or insults against religion an international criminal offense. Secretary General of the OIC Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said that governments should “come out of hiding from behind the excuse of freedom of expression,” […]

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Egypt Orders the Arrest of U.S.-Based Coptic Christians Responsible for Controversial YouTube Video

Police in California have detained Nakoula Basseley Nakoula in connection with the controversial YouTube video “The Innocence of Muslims,” that has sparked riots and protests in Muslim countries throughout the globe. Egypt has also issued an arrest warrant for the controversial Florida preacher Terry Jones, famous for leading a ceremony to burn Qurans, who is […]

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Egypt’s Tahrir Square is a Scene of Chaos After Violent Crackdown by Egyptian Security Forces.

Protestors in Cairo have been mercilessly beaten down by Egyptian Security Forces in an attempt to quell the protests still raging in now famous Tahrir Square, scene of the revolution against long time dictator Hosni Mubarak’s rule. In a protest raging for its second night, security forces unleashed rubber bullets and tear gas on protestors […]

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Protests in Egypt Against Military Rule.

Thousands upon thousands of protestors have amassed once again in Egypt’s famed Tahrir Square to protest the continued military rule of their country and to demand the process of transition to a civilian-led government. Called the “Friday of One Demand,” the protestors were called to action by a recent document released by the military discussing […]

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Melee Between Egyptian Security Forces and Coptic Christians.

Egypt’s Health Ministry is reporting that 23 people are dead and many others wounded after clashes between Egyptian Security Forces and Coptic Christians near Maspero state television station in Cairo. The fighting is allegedly in retaliation for a September 30th attack on a Coptic Christian Church in Merinab, Aswan about the church’s right to build […]

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Khanoufa: Life on the Streets of Cairo.

The author of this article, Mohamed Elmeshad, claims to have met and become friends with a man who many would have called Cairo’s most dangerous and wanted criminal. Dying two days after imprisonment from what the guards described as a ‘suicide,’ Refaat Adbel Shakour Hassan and the author met at his wedding when he was […]

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