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Date of source: Saturday, March 29, 2008
Dr. Rafīq Habīb praises the ’nonviolence initiative’ of al-Jamā‘ah al-Islāmīyah, believing that it is based on a true introspection for political, social and religious changes in society.
Date of source: Saturday, March 1, 2008
Rafīq Habīb rejects visions that regard Copts as a minority group in Egypt, saying it is just a numerical minority that coincides with the cultural and civilizational features of society as a whole.
Date of source: Saturday, January 19, 2008
The author, Dr. Rafīq Habīb, discusses the relationship between citizenship and sedition, believing that citizenship forms the primary defensive line to confronting sedition.
Date of source: Saturday, December 1, 2007
The author denounces an idea being promoted by political systems in the Arab world that the enforcement of a religious frame of reference violates basis of the civil state and democracy, paves the way to establish a religious state.
Date of source: Saturday, November 3, 2007
To avoid the danger of religious state we must keep clerics away from power. They also must be prevented from running for presidential elections. The state must also stop controlling religious institutions and appointing the Shaykh of the Azhar.
Date of source: Saturday, September 8, 2007
Dr. Rafīq Ḥabīb discusses the possibility that the current escalation in the regime’s confrontation against the Muslim Brotherhood may result in the extirpation of the group from the Egyptian society.
Date of source: Saturday, August 11, 2007
The author argues that it is rather impossible to call for a “secular” state in Arab and Muslim countries because democracy can never be adopted when there is a pre-existing religious background. The author suggests that a civil state based on democracy may work instead.
Date of source: Saturday, July 14, 2007
Dr. Rafīq Ḥabīb doubts the real motives behind the American annual aid to Egypt, claiming that the American administration manipulates the Egyptian government through such financial and developmental aid to serve American interests in the region.
Date of source: Saturday, June 16, 2007
Dr. Rafīq Habīb, the author, thinks that there could be a constructive relation between the state and the
religion, if only the nation chooses a specific Sharī‘ah and safeguards enforcing its principles.
Date of source: Saturday, June 9, 2007
Democracy has fangs, which essentially means that democracy from the viewpoint of the ruling regime is temporary and conditionally grants political freedom to certain parties and at certain times.
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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.