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	Farag Foda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Farag Foda (فرج فوده, 1946 - 8 June 1992) was an important Egyptian thinker, human rights activist, writer, and columnist.
		Before his death, Farag Foda was declared an apostate and foe of Islam.
		One of Foda's killers, Abd al-Shafi Ahmad Ramadhan, was sentenced to death on 30 December 1993 and executed on 26 February 1994.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Farag_Foda (213 words)

	Egypt: Human rights abuses by armed groups - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Farag Foda was just about to open the door of his car when one of the attackers riddled him, his 15-year-old son Ahmad, and his friend, Wahid Ra’fat Zaki, with bullets.
		Farag Foda and the other two men were taken to al-Mirghani hospital in Cairo.
		Farag Foda was born near Damietta in the Nile Delta.
	web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGMDE120221998?open&of=ENG-384 (5401 words)

	Farag Foda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Farag Foda (1946 - 8 June 1992) was an important Egyptian thinker, human rights activist, writer, and columnist.
		His death went unpunished because an Al-Azhar scholar, Mohammad Al-Ghazali, a witness before the court, declared it was not not wrong to kill a foe of Islam.
		Al-Ghazali said: "The killing of Farag Foda was in fact the implementation of the punishment against an apostate which the imam (the state) has failed to implement (undertake)." The court followed this view and those who killed Foda were released.
	www.phatnav.com /wiki/index.php?title=Farag_Foda (214 words)

	Why Islam Hates Democracy : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1992, Farag Foda, an Egyptian writer known for his secularist views, was shot dead outside his office in the heart of Cairo.
		Sheikh Muhammad al-Ghazali, a prominent and distinguished Egyptian cleric, testified at the Foda murder trial in defense of the accused.
		He stated that Ramadan had done his Islamic duty because Foda had revealed his apostasy in opposing the establishment of an Islamic state, in rejecting Sharia Law (the law of Islam), and in questioning the unity of the state and religion.
	sf.indymedia.org /print.php?id=132009 (1209 words)

	Afterword: The Rushdie Affair’s Legacy
		Farag Foda, a Muslim liberal and long-standing critic of the fundamentalists, was murdered in June 1992; his son and other bystanders were seriously wounded.
		Those accused of killing Farag Foda were defended in court by Sheikh Muhammad al-Ghazali, one of Egypt’s most senior theologians.
		Foda and ‘secularists’ like him are apostates who should be put to death.
	koenraadelst.bharatvani.org /articles/misc/rushdie.html (6765 words)

	Mohamed Mounir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mounir, has also gathered experiences in film: the film Destiny from Youssef Chahine, a prominent outsider in Egyptian cinema and at the same time its most internationally renowned representative, is a reckoning with the growing fundamentalism of his country.
		Mounir plays the singer Marwan from the 12th century, who escapes an attempted assassination by stirred up fanatics the first time, but succumbs the second time - a reference the Algerian Rai singer, but also Egyptian literary figures like Nagib Mahlus or Farag Foda.
		After the Sept 11 attacks, the singer was driven to learn more about Islam, which he feared was being seen in the West as the faith of terrorism and intolerance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mohamed_Mounir (1015 words)

	Irving J
		As you know, the Director of the Ibn Khaldoun Center, Dr. Saadeddin Ibrahim, was arrested and sentenced in a case that was much publicized and condemned around the world.
		Another prominent and outspoken Egyptian critic of religious intolerance, Farag Foda, was assassinated by Islamic fanatics.
		The organization was founded by Dr. Farag Foda, who was eventually assassinated also for his liberal views regarding the reformation of religion and the separation of religion and politics.
	www.ahmed.g3z.com /articles/referinces.htm (1101 words)

	The Rushdie Rules - Middle East Quarterly - June 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nobel Prize winner Nagib Mahfouz was seriously wounded with a knife wound to his neck in an attempt on his life in October 1994.
		Those accused of killing Farag Foda were defended in court by Sheikh Ahmad Ghazali, one of Egypt's most senior theologians.
		Likewise, Rachid Boudjedra of Algeria remarks that the international media reports only selected cases: "When Farag Foda fell, they were briefly persuaded [to report] but even before Foda many intellectuals in Cairo and Alexandria have been killed by fanatics."
	www.meforum.org /article/395 (4509 words)

	Intellectual Censorship in Islam: A Matter of Life and Death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		She escaped to the West, but still hides, her life blighted by a price on her head and not one but two death fatwas issued by pious Muslim clerics.
		Farag Foda is an Egyptian writer and human rights defender.
		Foda was shot dead by militants from an Islamic fundamentalist group after being branded as an apostate by officials at Al-Azhar, the leading Islamic educational institute in the world.
	forum.japantoday.com /m_289528/mpage_1/key_/tm.htm#290868 (4328 words)

	UN gets complaint about Muslim theologians - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Last September, Qaradawi in a fatwa in response to a question from the Egyptian Union of Journalists said killing “all Americans, civilian or military” in Iraq was allowed.
		Egyptian preacher Muhammad Al-Ghazzali in 1992, issued a fatwa for the murder of Farag Foda, an anti-clerical writer in Cairo.
		Within weeks of the fatwa, muslim zealots murdered Foda in the comfort of his own home.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=168203 (549 words)

	record98.htm in Business Recorder on July 04, 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The two women, Jihan Ibrahim Abdel Hamid and Sabah Abdel Rahman, are accused of acting as liaison officers between jailed militants and those outside, and also of sheltering comrades on the run.
		Abdel Hamid is the wife of Abu el-Ela Abed Rabbo, a Jamaa Islamiya leader serving a 40-year sentence for involvement in the murder in 1992 of secular writer Farag Foda and the killing of two policemen in 1994.
		Abdel Rahman is the widow of another Jamaa Islamiya chief, Hassan Salmeh, who was killed in a clash with police in Cairo in 1996.
	www.paksearch.com /br97/Jul/4/record98.htm (282 words)

	The Gulf War Era
		Also in 1992 in Egypt, violent confrontations between Coptic Christians and Islamist members of al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya ("the Islamic group"), who wanted to overthrow the regime and replace it with "Islamic" rule, spilled over into pitched battles with police.
		In June, outspoken Egyptian intellectual Farag Foda had been assassinated by Muslim extremists in Cairo.
		By the end of the year, extremists had begun targeting tourists in an attempt to cripple one of the pillars of the Egyptian economy and bring the government to its knees.
	www.nmhschool.org /tthornton/mehistorydatabase/gulf_war_era.htm (3483 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Egypt \| The writing on the wall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		After last week's atrocity in Taba, the inevitable took place: arguments that democracy and human rights could be sacrificed in the global battle against terrorism emerged stronger than ever.
		The fact that over 20 years of emergency law did not prevent Taba from happening in the first place did not seem to faze Kamal in the least.
		Hussein Abdel-Razeq of the leftist Tagammu Party told Al-Ahram Weekly that, "all the incidents of terrorism and violence, beginning with the assassination of Farag Foda [a liberal thinker gunned down in 1990] through to the Luxor massacre in 1997, took place within the reign of the emergency law."
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/712/eg9.htm (863 words)

	Stop Terror Sheikhs, Muslin Academics Demand
		The petition also names the late Egyptian preacher Muhammad Al-Ghazzali who, in 1992, issued a fatwa for the murder of Farag Foda, an anti-clerical writer in Cairo.
		Within weeks of the fatwa, zealots murdered Foda in his home.Other “sheikhs of death” mentioned include the Yemeni Abdul-Majid Al-Zendani, and the Saudis Ali bin Khudhair Al-Khudhair and Safar Al-Hawali.
		The two Saudis have described the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks against the United States as “retaliations”, and thus justified under Islamic law.
	www.contactomagazine.com /sheiksofterror1106.htm (494 words)

	review of "for rushdie: essays by arab & muslim writers in defense of free speech" by various authors (dave edelman's ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Many hold particular resentment for the Khomeini's subversion of Islamic law to terrorist ends, particularly when directed at a British author who is not a Muslim.
		Others use their pieces to inform Western audiences about the numerous unsung martyrs to creative expression in the Middle East, from the Egyptian intellectual Farag Foda to the Saudi Arabian poet Sadiq Melallah.
		A few contributors criticize the Western media for seizing upon the Rushdie affair as a symbol of the intolerance Islam preaches, when Khomeini's followers by no means constitute a majority of believers.
	www.dave-edelman.com /reviews/rushdie.cfm (290 words)

	Dorrk.com
		In 1992, Islamic assassins had gunned down my good and brave friend Farag Foda, a professor and columnist, a human-rights activist, and an outspoken critic of the Islamic militants.
		The murder had shocked Cairo and terrified intellectuals.
		"Is this what concerns Muslims at the end of the 20th century?" [Farag] Foda asked in a column in October magazine.
	www.dorrk.com /blog/display.asp?showBlog=20050527080143 (244 words)

	2001-2002 News
		Farag Foda and Dr. Saadawi at the AWSA headquarters, which took place October 1989.
		An English transcript of excerpts from Dr. Foda's speech is also on that site.
		Read about, and participate in, the AWSA conference in Cairo 2-5 January, 2002.
	www.nawalsaadawi.net /news/2002news.htm (669 words)

	Usenet Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One of the gunmen, AbdulShafi Ahmad Ramadan, who was apprehended after the attack, boasted to police: "We had to kill him, because he attacked our beliefs." Sheikh Muhammad alGhazali, a prominent and distinguished Egyptian cleric, testified at the Foda murder trial in defense of the accused.
		But how does the Islamic world gain it if it cannot shed itself of how and why Salman Rushdie must live the rest of his life in hiding escaping the fate of Farag Foda http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=179
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	www2.allusenet.org /File.asp?service=47865 (8881 words)

	News Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		By choosing this symbolic date, we intend to signify the universality and global consciousness of our new entity.
		On June 8th, 1992, the Egyptian secular thinker and writer, Dr Farag Foda, was sprayed with bullets by Muslim fundamentalists in Cairo.
		Muslim women's groups vow to stop sharia courts.
	atheisme.ca /actualite/actualite_archive_en_2004_06.html (438 words)

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