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Date of source: Tuesday, August 24, 2004
There is conflict among Muslims concerning what their religion is. Last Sunday, two Arab leaders made statements pertaining to this point. The Moroccan King Muhammad VI called for the protection of Moroccan society in the face of the “the shaking of religious references and the escalation of...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 9, 2006
The author tackles the relationship between state and religion in Islamic history, noting that religious and political issues in Islamic culture are very complicated and are not clear so far.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 30, 2003
The fifteen Saudis, who were among the nineteen perpetrators of the attacks of September 11, produced a number of transformations in Saudi Arabia. They even became the subject of a series of American questions, which later turned to Saudi ones. From where did they come? What did they learn? How...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 25, 2003
It is a fatal mistake to consider religious terrorism an abnormal act that is perpetrated by a group of abnormal youths. Religious terrorism is the product of an existing mentality and culture. We condemn religious violence, but we do not review its causes. We fear the results of this review, for...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 14, 2003
Al-Zaydi wonders where contemporary Islamic ideology stands in relation to the concept of homeland. His question comes in response to a research paper by a Saudi intellectual about the Palestinian issue that was introduced in the media festival organized by Al-Manar [lighthouse] satellite channel....
Date of source: Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Many people speak about the political ‘injustice’ that many Muslims detect in the policies of the West. It is this sense of injustice that encouraged the Turkish terrorist Sokarra, who dated girls, and drank alcohol, to join the al-Qācīda camps. Yet this shallow explanation of the phenomenon of...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Militarized Islamist fundamentalism, or what is now known as al-Qācida, is responsible for all this death and destruction. They were responsible for the 9/11 attacks and the bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar el Salaam in 1998, which killed more than 200 people, mostly civilians.
Date of source: Friday, June 24, 2005
The new thing about al-Qā‘ida’s second-in-command Ayman al-Zawāhirī tape aired by the Doha-based Aljazeera news channel on June 17, 2005 was that it focused on his concept of “reform,” “freedom” and “political participation.”
Date of source: Thursday, October 13, 2005 to Friday, October 14, 2005
In prison, the true character of Abu Mus‘ab al-Zarqāwī was shaped. During the course of his trial, he attacked the judges and accused them of being infidels, impressing Usāma Bin Lādin and Ayman al-Zawāhrī, according to the testimony of al-Qā‘ida member, Sayf al-‘Adl, an Egyptian.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 14, 2004
The vast majority [of Muslims] believes that it is not Al-Qa’ida that carried out the bombings of September 11. Many believe that the Zionist movement, the American intelligence or neo-conservatives may be behind these attacks. This way of apprehending events indicates that there is a collective...
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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.