Reuters AlertNet - Iraqi insurgents name spokesman-Web site, 3 July 05: "The Islamic Army in Iraq and the Mujahideen Army identified the official as Ibrahim Youssef al-Shammari 'to silence all those who speak in the name of the mujahideen (holy warriors), according to the statement posted on an Islamist Web site."

BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Egypt plea for seized ambassador, 4 July 05

monstersandcritics.com, Pakistan government urged to monitor anti-Islamic websites, 3 July 05: "Deputy chief Jamiat-ul-Uloom Al-Islamia and deputy prayer leader of Lal Mosque, Islamabad, Allama Qari Abdur Rashid Ghazi had written a detailed letter to federal minister of information technology, Awais Khan Leghari, some four months back in which he appealed to him that some Internet websites contain objectionable material about the Islamic creed, injunctions, the Koran, the personality of the Prophet and his sayings [hadith] in order to misguide the Muslim youth." (Text of report by Pakistani newspaper Ausaf on 3 July).

The Jakarta Post - Muhammadiyah still lags behind in global education development, 3 July 05: report on the Muhammadiyah conference in Malang, Indonesia, includes dsicussion on how educational goals might be improved through access to materials (including the net)

Internet rap threatens Dutch MP | The Register, 4th July 2005: "Dutch MP and hard line critic of Islam Geert Wilders has lodged a police complaint against an internet hate rap. The rappers, who dubbed themselves Youssef and Kamal, threatened to cut or even 'saw off' Wilders' trademark wig-like peroxide-blond hair."

strategypage.com, Al Qaeda Gets Its Cyberwar Groove, 4 July 2005 discussion piece

Al Azhar Online Project invited to present its expertise at Cambridge University Islamic Manuscript Conference | ITEP: "A delegation from the 'H.H Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Project to Preserve Al Azhar Scripts and Publish Them Online' will present their expertise at a conference on the conservation and management of Islamic manuscripts to be held in the UK between 4th and 6th of July, 2005." refers to the story below

Islam Online- News Section: "Scholars, calligraphers and liberians from across the globe are expected to converge Monday, July 4, on King's College, University of Cambridge, for a four-day conference on the conservation and digitization of rare Islamic manuscripts.

"The Islamic Manuscript: Conservation, Cataloguing, Accessibility, Copyright and Digitization conference is sponsored by the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation (TIF) in association with the Center for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge."

Details of the conference can be found here: Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation

BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | 'Al-Qaeda chief' killed in Riyadh, 4 July 05 "Saudi security forces say they have killed the country's most wanted man, al-Qaeda's leader in the kingdom."

BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Work starts on Pakistan Net cable, 4 July 05 "Engineers have begun work off the Pakistani coast to try to repair an undersea cable fault that has crippled internet and telephone services."

Editor: Myself | Hossein Derakhshan's weblog (English), July 3 2005 comment from Hossein: "I'm glad that Apple has acknowledged PodCasts in the new version of its iTunes. But it's such a shame it doesn't have Persian (Farsi) among its supported language.

"There are more than a dozen Persian podcasts out there now after I introduced it in my Persian blog a few months ago. They are a big step towards a free socio-political media space and they contribute to the process of democracy in Iran."

Islam Online, IslamOnline.net Writer “Linguist of the Year”, 3 July 2005

New political tool: text messaging | csmonitor.com, 29 June 2005 includes examples from Kuwait and Lebanon.

Asharq Alawsat Newspaper (English), The New Iraqi Media, 26 June 2005

Asharq Alawsat Newspaper (English), A Chat with the Sun's Anila Baig - The UK''s biggest papers gets its first veiled columnist…Anila Baig uncovers a friendlier face of British Muslims, 26 June 2005

Bernama, Malaysian National News Agency, 30 June 2005: "Only four percent of Arab women use the Internet, the Moroccan news agency, MAP reported Wednesday, quoting the UN Economic and Social Commission For Western Asia (ECWA)."

CNN.com - U.S. keeps control of Internet computers - Jun 30, 2005: "The U.S. government will indefinitely retain oversight of the main computers that control traffic on the Internet, ignoring calls by some countries to turn the function over to an international body, a senior official said Thursday."

adnki.com, Italy: New Book Lists 61 Terror Groups, 17 Of Which Are Islamic, 1 July 2005: "The dilemma in the saying, 'one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter' dominated the presentation Thursday in Rome of a new book titled 'Contemporary Terrorist Groupings: European, Middle Eastern and North African.' The book is co-authored by Vittorfranco Pisano and Alessio Piccirilli and is published by the Rome-based Adnkronos Libri.The bulk of the book consists of 61 detailed fact-boxes of different 'terrorist' groups ranging from the al-Qaeda network to the so-called eco-terrorists of Britain's Animal Liberation Front. "

adnki.com, Pakistan: Internet Restoration Could Take Another Week, 1 July 2005: "Restoration of the internet system in Pakistan could take at least another week as a ship dispatched to the fault site of a damaged undersea cable to repair the connection, has not yet reached its destination, official sources told the Pakistani daily, Dawn. The sources said the ship which sailed from Dubai, would take another two to three days to reach the site and that it could take more than a week of work for any improvement in Pakistan's Internet system, which has been down since Friday."

Khaleej Times Online, 'UAE hotspotters are busiest in region', 1 July 2005 "UAE users are the keenest "hotspotters" in the region, with an impressive 23 per cent of hotspot users in the UAE claimed to access the Internet over public wireless networks every day, according to a survey carried out by Paradigm Research in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and the UAE among more than 300 people from all walks of life."