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Date of source: الجمعة, آذار (مارس) 20, 2015
Egypt’s UN ambassador, ʿAmr Ramadān says “we accept positive criticism that will support the progress that we aim for”. Worth mentioning is that 25 international organizations issued a statement “condemning the Egyptian government for its treatment of human rights defenders and for its human rights...
Date of source: الخميس, آذار (مارس) 19, 2015
Ihāb Fawzī, Egypt’s ambassador to the EU in Brussels “has sent Sāmih Shukrī, Minister of Foreign affairs a letter objecting the high number of death penalties against the Muslim Brothers in Egypt”. According to al-ʿArabī News, Fawzī believes such exaggerated numbers of death sentences make his job...
Date of source: الخميس, آذار (مارس) 19, 2015
Muhammad al-Abasīrī, a prominent Salafi Imam issued a fatwa stating that “reporting those who invite others for violence and terrorism and their followers is an Islamic duty”. Abasīrī added “those who do not report the Muslim Brothers are participating in the violence by their silence and shall be...
Date of source: الخميس, آذار (مارس) 19, 2015
The ministry of interior accuses leaders of the Muslim Brotherhoods abroad of leading violent extremist groups. Muhammad Muntasir the spokesperson of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, rejected the accusations and said “we refuse violence and our revolution will remain peaceful”.
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Date of source: الخميس, آذار (مارس) 19, 2015
Egypt accepts 11 recommendations from the UN commission on Human Rights and rejects 60 because of their conflict with Shari’a law such as equal inheritance between man and woman as well as other recommendations such as abolishing the death penalty. Egypt also rejected accusations of systematic and...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آذار (مارس) 18, 2015
Oxford university professor Ṭāriq Ramadān was interviewed by DW to discuss raising Islamic radicalism and contemporary problems of Muslims in Europe. Ramadān thinks that the problem is in Muslims themselves and the way they market their religion and leave it for radicals to hijack and claim for...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آذار (مارس) 18, 2015
Ministry of Education in Egypt decided to eliminate stories of ʿOqba bin Nāfiʿ and Saladin, two Islamic historical characters from Arabic language texts. The ministry spokesperson said “the stories could be misunderstood and used to promote violence”. The decision is part of the ministry’s plan of...
Date of source: الأربعاء, آذار (مارس) 18, 2015
The cases of 22 of pro- Mursī protesters were transferred to the grand Mufti, they are facing the death penalty based on accusations of attacking a police station. Among other accusations the 22 men are accused of “using weapons without license, violence against police, and first degree murder”.
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Date of source: الثلاثاء, آذار (مارس) 17, 2015
The Iraqi ministry of foreign affairs requested to meet the Egyptian ambassador in Baghdad in order to express the objection of the Iraqi government to the comments of Al-Azhar’s Imam Ahmad al-Tayyib where he described the pro-government forces in Iraq as “sectarian Shīʿī militias”
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Date of source: الثلاثاء, آذار (مارس) 17, 2015
According to a statement issued by the office of the Attorney General’s office “the Muslim Brotherhood group is responsible for the Air Defence stadium massacre because they financed the Ultras Zamalek FC or the “White knights””. The statement added “the MB used their relationship with some leaders...
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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.