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Date of source: Monday, March 13, 2000
Dr. Al-Fayyoumi continues relating the history of Muslim and Christian interaction in Spain covering the period of the Tabannin, the conquering of Muslim areas by the army of Ferdinand and Isabella in 1487, and the treatment of Christians when Spain was under Muslim rule. He ends by calling for...
Date of source: Friday, February 25, 2000
... we asked the professors of the Azhar and Islamic scholars for their opinion on what Al-Banna says. Their rage and objections against what he said surprised us. They made it clear that the apostate’s punishment is death and that a Muslim has no freedom to leave his religion.
Date of source: Friday, February 18, 2000
When the extremist secular Farag Foda killed himself [this is the formulation of the author. Foda was murdered. See the comments of the RNSAW in the text], Sheikh Al-Sharawi - may God rest his soul - shouted: "Allahu Akbar! If I was to kill anybody, I would have killed this man..."
Date of source: Saturday, February 12, 2000 to Friday, February 18, 2000
Imagine that you have switched on the television and found a man announcing to everybody that Copts are persecuted and that they suffer from the Islamic occupation that must leave Egypt. Minutes later, another man appears, explaining religion in his own way, saying that Christians are Kufar [non-...
Date of source: Friday, January 28, 2000
Last week, A.M.A. spoke in a television program [the article doesn’t mention which program but from the context of the article a TV program in Britain is suspected] in which he described himself by being someone who calls people to Islam. He demanded the murder of all the rulers of the Muslim...
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2000 to Friday, January 28, 2000
Some people may wonder why these lines are written?! The reason is simply something that happened during the first day of the Eid Al-Fitr. ... I have nothing to say to those who call themselves the Muslim Brotherhood but "Stop harming our good Islam! Because when you commit a crime, the Western...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 29, 1999
The punishment for Ridda [apostasy] from Islam was not stated clearly in the Holy Qur’an like the punishment for stealing. However, it was mentioned in two not-agreed-by-all Hadiths. The scholars did not consider such Hadiths while giving opinions, to the extent that Dr. Mahmoud Shaltout, the late...
Date of source: Friday, December 3, 1999
The author responds to a controversial article of Islamic thinker Fahmy Howeidy, titled "The voice of the Coptic church". Howeidy mentioned that he is sorry for the behavior of Copts abroad because they meet with some Jewish extremists in a mutual attempt of which they may or may not know its...
Date of source: Thursday, March 25, 1999 to Wednesday, March 31, 1999
To the more hardline of Britain’s 1.75 million Muslims, this month’s 75th anniversary of the destruction of the Islamic State (Khilafah) by modern Turkey’s secularist founder Mustafa Kamal is a stark reminder of the West’s enduring hostility to Islam.
Date of source: Sunday, January 24, 1999
During the last ten years, Sheikh Yousef Al- Badri has not had any chance to attack his enemies and appears as the superior religious scholar to the extent that he became, according to many people, a talkative phenomena that does not stop talking. He became unable to distinguish between his...
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.