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Date of source: الاثنين, حزيران (يونيو) 21, 2004
Dr. Hasan Wajīh responds to earlier articles of Drs. Cornelis Hulsman and Dr. Jeff Adams explaining the need to apply one standard in dealing with people of different faiths or as Dr. Wajīh formulated this; to find a common ground of identification in interfaith and intercultural dialogue between...
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون الثاني (يناير) 21, 2005
Non-Muslims live in Muslim communities enjoying liberty; they keep their religion without being forced to hold another, and they share the duty of defending their nation. Then, what about the freedom of the Muslim himself? Could he change his religion, considering a tradition narrated by al-Bukhārī...
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون الثاني (يناير) 14, 2005
The Qur’ān has never used the language of intimidation or terrorism to impose the Muslim point of view. On the contrary, the Qur’ān clearly states that “There is no compulsion in religion” [Chapter of al-Baqara (the Cow) 2: 256], giving people the freedom to believe whatever they choose to believe...
Date of source: الخميس, كانون الثاني (يناير) 6, 2005
His Holiness Pope Shenouda III is an extremely wise and intellectual man, a unique person who knows and understands a lot. He has a long living memory that goes back in history.
Date of source: الجمعة, آب (اغسطس) 31, 2001
The book "Treatment of Non-Muslims in the State of Islam," by Ibrahim Suleiman, refutes the claims accusing Islam of being a religion of fanaticism that blots out freedom. It also discusses the principles of the Islamic Shari’a regarding the treatment of non-Muslims.
Date of source: الأحد, نيسان (أبريل) 15, 2001
Members of the Islamic Research Institute demanded Sheikh Abdel-Met’aal Al-Sa’idi’s book "Religious freedom in Islam," be confiscated. Al-Saiidi wrote in his book that an apostate should not be killed. It was only Prof. Mohammed Ragab Al-Bayoumi who defended the book.
Date of source: الجمعة, شباط (فبراير) 9, 2001
The author believes that faith cannot be the product of compulsion. It is unimaginable that any heavenly religion, Judaism, Christianity or Islam, can be founded on compulsion to join it. These three religions accepted and approved the religions that came before them: Judaism tells stories of the...
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون الثاني (يناير) 12, 2001
The Grand Sheikh of the Azhar received the American under-secretary of state and head of the International Office of Religious Freedom in the United States. He explained that the thousand-year-old Azhar is based on moderation and investigating the true religious issues and calls for the spreading...
Date of source: الجمعة, كانون الثاني (يناير) 12, 2001
When Muslims conquered Egypt, they realized that the most dangerous issue in Egypt during the Byzantine rule was religion and interference in the Egyptian’s faith. Muslim politicians started to establish the principle declared by the Qur’an that is there is no compulsion in religion. The result was...
Date of source: الأحد, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 3, 2000
Through an imaginary dialogue between the author and two of his friends, he gives the pros and cons to the idea of establishing an Islamic party for the Muslim Brotherhood. While one of the friends is of opinion that announcing such a party will push the country two hundred years back in time, the...
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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.