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Date of source: Tuesday, February 3, 2004
The article reports about Muhammad Kamal Mustafa, an Egyptian
Imam living in Spain who was sentenced to jail and fined 2,160 Euro by a Spanish court. Mustafa
is accused of publishing a book in which he says that punishing a disobedient woman should be
done through light beating.
The court...
Date of source: Friday, February 6, 2004
The article presents the
views of a number of Muslim intellectuals such as Dr. Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq, Egyptian Minister of
Awqaf [Endowments], Muhammad Ben Ya’eesh, president of the Islamic-European Chamber of Commerce,
and Ga’far Abdel Salam, the secretary general of the league of Islamic...
Date of source: Friday, February 13, 2004
More than one French magazine
confirmed that Tareq Ramadan, the grandson of the founder of the banned group of the Muslim
Brotherhood, is the target of many Western and Arab intelligence agencies as [allegedly] the
secret leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe. But Ramadan denied all the...
Date of source: Monday, February 16, 2004
Mamdouh Ismail criticizes the opinions of Prince Al-Walid Ibn Talal [the owner
of the music satellite channel Rotana] on the issue of the veil in France and of martyrdom
operations. The prince voiced his opinion in an interview with the French paper Le Figaro.
Date of source: Friday, February 20, 2004
The Grand Imam of Al Azhar Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi
confirmed that the veil is an Islamic obligation and whoever denies it is considered an apostate.
During the meeting of the head authority of the International Islamic Council for Da’wa and
Relief, he said that dealing with the French veil ban...
Date of source: Sunday, February 22, 2004
Today, a
harsh delusory media campaign would be mounted against France due to the law banning the donning
of explicit religious symbols. We might as well take France’s ’lead and put our house in order
by going after the countless issues we tend to shelf or place ’on hold’, leaving them...
Date of source: Friday, February 20, 2004
The French Cabinet finally issued the decision to
ban the veil, regardless of the feelings of religious minorities, whether they are Muslims, Jews
or Sikhs. The problem that worries France, Europe and America is the failure to integrate
resident immigrants and the multiplicity of customs and...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Chirac sees that his country has five million Muslims trying to congregate to remain in
isolation and reject France’s culture. What Chirac wants, as he read in his statement, is to
“prevent [groups from] clinging onto their affiliation to [their] groups that might threaten the
society by [these...
Date of source: Saturday, December 18, 2004
The Egyptian authorities released a famous
fundamentalist extradited by Sweden in 2002. They also commuted a lifetime sentence of another to
a 15-year imprisonment.
Date of source: Friday, December 17, 2004
The British government revealed a new law proposal condemning
discrimination on the basis of religion. Muslims, who are considered the religious denomination
suffering the most from discrimination in Britain, especially after September 11, would benefit
tremendously.
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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.