WASHINGTON (AP) - A top House Republican said Tuesday the primary goal of U.S. policy in Egypt should be to "stop the spread of radical Islam," an objective that has been little mentioned by Obama ...

Islam and Christianity are frequently described as “missionary religions.” Considering that well over half the planet’s population belongs in some way to either tradition, there’s no small truth in ...

CAIRO — With all the confusion and controversy these days over Islam, Sheik Khalid Gendy thinks he has hit on the perfect way to set the record straight, emphasize his religion’s message of peace--and ...

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CAIRO (AP) — One of the Arab world's best known Egyptian comedians has been sentenced to three months in jail for offending Islam, a judge said Thursday, in the latest such case against a high-profile ...

CAIRO, Egypt — The Islamic state? A contradiction in terms. Jihad? Far too much emphasis these days on military action. A requirement that women wear a veil? A quaint leftover from pre-Muslim times ...

The Muslim Brotherhood and ultra-conservative Salafists won 60 percent of the vote in Egypt's recent elections. What will that mean for the ruling military, relations with Israel, and for democracy?

Egypt is in danger of losing its identity to Islamism, said Tarek Heggy. Our culture is a many-layered construct that incorporates theancient civilization of the pharaohs, influences from the Coptic ...

23 December 2006 DOHA: As opposed to Marxism which is against capitalism, Islam preaches a middle path between capitalism and socialism, says a prominent politician from Egypt. Magdi Ahmed Hussein, ...

Sheikh Nassr Farid Wassel, Egypt's Mufti, called Friday upon Muslims to refute the "Zionist" notion that Islam permits terrorism, reports said. Sheikh Wassel was quoted by state-run MENA press agency ...