Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he considered Hamas as a political party or a resistance movement, not a terrorist organization and he added that he was pleased over the recent reconciliation between Hamas and Al Fatah.

A senior member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood said he would run for president as an independent, a move that could draw votes from backers of the Islamist group that has said it will not field a candidate.

Egyptians plan to march to Palestine under the slogan “Cairo’s liberation will not be complete without the liberation of Al-Quds [Jerusalem].”On 15 May, to mark mass expulsion of Palestinians, known as Nakba by Israel.

Prominent Muslim scholar Sheikh Faysal Mawlawi, the deputy chairman of the European Council for Fatwa and Research, passed away on Sunday, May 8, at the age of 70.

Three Muslim clerics traveling to a religious conference in the United States have been forced to get off a Delta flight because the pilot refused to fly with them on board.The imams were heading to a conference on Islamphobia in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Activists claim that up to 30 people have been killed in Syria where thousands have taken to the streets for another day of anti-government rallies, dubbed a “day of defiance”.

Revealing his “uncomfortable feeling” at the killing of an unarmed Osama bin Laden, the  Archbishop of Canterbury said the way  United States took does not serve justice.

Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have proclaimed a landmark, Egypt-mediated reconciliation pact aimed at ending their bitter four-year rift.The ceremony took place Wednesday at the Egyptian intelligence headquarters in Cairo, according to The Associated Press.

A human rights groups say hundreds of ordinary Syrians have been jailed for “degrading the prestige of the state” amid an intensifying crackdown on anti-government protests.

The Bulgarian Chief Mufti’s Office has protested against what they describe as a ill-minded provocation on part of the nationalist party Ataka during the Friday prayer in the leading mosque of the capitol, Sofia.