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19-year-old Muhammed Fathi Abulkasem, a British citizen, was arrested in Egypt on charges of espionage for having taken a photograph as his plane was landing, which happened to show a military helicopter in the background

Cairo court sentences 75 Egyptians to death over the Rabaa al-Adawiya Mosque sit-in demonstration against Sisi’s military coup

Today marks 52 years since Syed Qutb, the great Egyptian Muslim thinker, was hanged by the regime of Jamal Abdel Nasser. He preferred death and torture to renouncing what he had declared. It is to him that the powerful and profound statement is attributed: “The finger that testifies that there is no God but Allāh refuses to testify to other than Him.”

Amnesty International: “This can only be described as a parody of justice; it casts a dark shadow over the integrity of Egypt’s entire system of justice and makes a mockery of due process.”

Shaykh Qaradawi: “If I thought that putting in an appeal to them (the Egyptian authorities) would have worked, I would have done so, but they are completely heartless”

Saudi reportedly concerned that if Turkey is not stopped, President Erdoğan would be seen “as the only leader truly standing up to Israel and the Trump administration”

Tommy Robinson supporters hurl missiles and smoke bombs at police in violent protests...

Recently an Egyptian news site published a report quoting an Azhari scholar, Khaled Al Gendy, saying “that drinking liquor without getting drunk is not sinful.”[1] It was based on a television panel discussion where four scholars—one from each school of ...