Front Page Magazine
2 June 2009


 
This week, President Barack Obama is scheduled to give a major address in Cairo to the Muslim world.

The Wall Street Journal
2 June 2009
 
Mubarak competes with Ramses II for time in office.



Egyptians have traditionally thought of their country as the "Mother of the World." President Barack Obama says he wants to change the world. Egypt may very well be a good place to start.

Christian Post Reporter
2 June 2009


Members of the American Coptic Association march in front of the
White House in Washington, on July 16, 2008, protesting conditions
in Egypt for Christians.
 
Groups representing persecuted Christians are requesting that President Obama mention religious freedom issues in his upcoming highly anticipated address to the Muslim world this week.

Israel National News
2 June 2009


From a Coptic demo
in Los Angeles, 2006
 
(IsraelNN.com) Members of the Egyptian Coptic diaspora urged American President Barack Obama to remember the Middle East's oppressed non-Muslim minorities during his upcoming trip to Cairo. Several members of the U.S. Congress echoed the Copts' concerns.

The Wall Street Journal
1 June 2009
 
Kuwait's election is part of a positive trend.


A Kuwaiti woman casts her vote during the country's
parliamentary elections. Photo Courtesy: AP.
 
The results of Kuwait's elections last month -- in which Islamists were rebuffed and four women were elected to parliament -- will likely reinvigorate the movement for greater democracy in the region that has stalled since the hopeful "Arab spring" of 2005.

The East African
1st June 2009

Failure by Egypt and Sudan to come up with a common stand during the Nile Council of Ministers’ assembly in Kinshasa, DR Congo, frustrated their attempts to block a new pact to govern the use of River Nile waters.

1 June 2009


The government appoints the mufti
but he says he is independent
 
Muslims should not use weapons of mass destruction and possess them only as a deterrent, a top Islamic cleric says.

The Sunday Times
31 May 2009

'Does God Hate Women' by Jeremy Stangroom and Ophelia Benson cites attitudes to women and criticises Mohammed's marriage

An academic book about religious attitudes to women is to be published this week despite concerns it could cause a backlash among Muslims because it criticises the prophet Muhammad for taking a nine-year-old girl as his third wife.