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Date of source: Wednesday, September 21, 2005
In a phone call to al-Sharq al-Awsat, Egyptian fundamentalist, Muhammad Zakī Mahjoub, claimed that Usāma Bin Lādin, leader of al-Qā‘ida, used money to recruit young Muslims.
Date of source: Sunday, November 7, 2004
Politiken interviewed Drs. Hulsman immediately after the assassination of Theo van Gogh about militant Islam and how to address these militants. ”Calling the militant Muslims representative of Islam is like calling the neo-nazis representative of Christianity,” Cornelis Hulsman said. Militants...
Date of source: Thursday, November 11, 2004
A subsidiary committee of the U.S. Congress has voiced concern over the expulsion of some girls from their schools in France because they refused to remove their veil. It considered that a "violation of the freedom of religion," and has contacted the French government, but has not received a...
Date of source: Thursday, November 11, 2004
The mayor of Drez [spelling?], a city in Northern Italy, targeted Muslims only by banning the niqab [a veil that hides all of the head and face]. He claimed that Italian laws prohibited the covering of the face in public places which makes identifying an individual a difficult task. He added that...
Date of source: Monday, November 8, 2004
The assassination of Theo van Gogh resulted in a debate in Dutch media about the limits of the freedom of expression. Van Gogh himself specialized in offensive language against religion; his words were deliberately calculated to hurt people. Others, found van Gogh had gone too far, misused the...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 9, 2004
Paris rejected a Jewish call from a US-based Jewish group for legal action against a leading Islamic organization in France, accused of anti-Semitism and alleged to have contacts with the Islamic resistance movement, Hamas.
Date of source: Monday, November 8, 2004
The British body responsible for prisons said it would soon build a mosque with a minaret and a dome inside the heavily-guarded Belmarsh prison in southwestern London, which houses a number of fundamentalist leaders. The step is meant to offer the chance for Muslim prisoners to observe their...
Date of source: Saturday, November 6, 2004
France gives full freedom to its citizens to believe in whatever they want. Thousands of French chose Islam and no one has ever asked them why.
The official number of French Muslims is 50,000 but the unofficial could be double this figure, considering that those unofficially announced Muslims did...
Date of source: Saturday, November 6, 2004
The filmmaker of a film that criticizes violence against women in Islamic societies was shot dead by a 26-year-old Muslim man who is a dual national of Morocco and Holland. Theo Van Gogh has raised much controversy with his articles and films that express his controversial opinions about Islam...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 17, 2004
The Dutch government declared that it has taken new measures in its campaign to counter the threats of terrorism and extremist groups that call for “armed jihad.” These measures came after the escalation of extreme-right voices calling on the government to take steps of this kind especially in 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.