Indonesia has said the film Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders plans to release about the Qur’an could derail interfaith dialogue and harm efforts toward global stability and peace. The film, called Fitna (Slander), is said to depict Islam’s holy text as a “fascist book” that “should be banned”. Wilders said he plans to release the 15-minute film on March 28 and has already said the Qur’an is like Adolf Hitler’s best-seller Mein Ka...

Dozens of residents of Bil’in, a village near Ramallah, took to the streets in their weekly demonstration protesting against the illegal confiscation of village land through Israel’s continued expansion of the wall. The residents were joined by many international and Israeli peace activists. Israeli troops manning the wall and the gate in the wall that cuts off the villagers from their lands showered the protesters with tear gas and rubber coated steal bullets as soon as the prote...

Amnesty International has today made a fresh call on the United States government to make known the whereabouts of people subjected to its secret detention operation in the “war on terror”. The organisation is also renewing its call on the UK government to allow a thorough, independent inquiry into all aspects of the UK’s involvement with secret “war on terror” detentions, including “rendition” flights where prisoners have been secretly flown from cou...

Darfur gets its name from its largest ethnic group in the region the Fur, who dominated the area for hundreds of years. Some 2.5 million people have been displaced in Darfur and hundreds of thousands of people have died. Two human rights groups, the US-based Save Darfur Coalition and the Senegalese group RADDHO (Recontre Africaine pour La Défense des Droits d l’Hommes), have sponsored the Sultan of the Fur, Salah Eldine Mahamat Fadoul, and one of his Islamic advisors to come to t...

A 30-year-old Saudi national is ready to leave for Nepal to scale Mount Everest, a feat that will make him the first Saudi to attempt the mammoth climb. “My goal is to unfurl the Saudi flag on top of the world’s highest peak,” said Farouk Saad Hamad Al-Zoman. Al-Zoman has climbed four of the world’s highest peaks while studying at Oregon State University and is set to embark on scaling the 8,850-metre high mountain. Al-Zoman, a PR strategist for Attariq Communications...

Egyptian security forces raids against Muslim Brotherhood potential candidates running for the Municipal elections led to the detention of 831 candidates. The State Security Police raids focused on MB potential candidates through overnight raids in governorates of Monofiya, Sharqiya, Alexandria and Giza and Damietta. The first of these raids took place on February 14 in which dozens of Muslim Brotherhood members and leaders were arrested from their homes in governorates of Sharqiya, Al F...

The Muslim Brotherhood decided to run in the Municipal elections on April 8, in order to practise its constitutional and legal rights, and play a vital role in building the society and develop Egypt through the local councils to improve the spectrum of services they provide. The MB is determined to carry out this role in spite of aggressions its members and leaders are facing at the hand of the corrupts and tyrants including arbitrary detentions, and freezing assets, let a...

A massive fire reduced a plastic cover manufacturing unit in Jebel Ali Industrial Area in Dubai to ashes, civil defence officials said. No human casualty was reported in the fire. Eyewitnesses said thick blocks of smokes billowed out to the sky soon after the fire erupted and could be seen from the Shaikh Zayed Road. “Police and Civil Defence officials rushed to the spot and cordoned off the area. Most parts of the factory were gutted and the smell of burning plastic engulfed the area,&...