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Egypt bans brotherhood leader from travel.

Muslim Brotherhood members have repeatedly been denied permission from travelling abroad by the government in yet another demonstration of human rights violations.

Stop the politicisation of Islam in Switzerland

The year 2010 has started off as a difficult one for Muslim-European relations. Switzerland’s 29 November referendum banning the construction of minarets is still producing an outcry in the country

A Jewish voice against the “burqa ban”

While studying abroad in the French city of Strasbourg in 2007, I decided to grow a bushy beard. Little did I know that in France only traditional Jewish and Muslim

A Swiss minaret ban echoes in Belgium, but why?

A Flemish municipality, named Beringen, applied for installing speakers on the minarets of their Fatih mosque, a Turkish-Ottoman styled mosque and one of the biggest of Belgium.

Before We Damn Switzerland

On October 27 I was on a visit to Switzerland and in this column I wrote from there a first article about the battle over minarets.

Muslim Brotherhood denounces Geert Wilders’ film, calls for peaceful reactions

Despite the flagrant violation of freedom of belief in Wilders’ speeches and his movie, Muslim Brotherhood statements called for avoiding riots and violent reactions and concentrating instead on a constructive