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Date of source: Friday, February 25, 2005
According to Muslim shaykhs’explanations of the tusnami, we should understand that God punished Muslims, destroyed their lands, and cruelly crushed them because they welcomed tourists and allowed them to play music, dance and feel happy. It seems that the happiness of tourists must have disturbed...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Dr. Zaghloul al-Najjār has been repeating over and over that the tsunami victims deserved what happened to them because they are sinners and adulterers. I asked Dr. al-Najjār what would you say about the recent flood in Pakistan, which is an Islamic country, the earthquake in the Islamic Republic...
Date of source: Sunday, February 27, 2005
The recent deadly tidal waves known as tsunami, which claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands in several Asian countries, will not go unnoticed by scientific research institutions in the West. The matter, however, is totally different in ignorant backward countries. The casualties were mostly...
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2005
While some people explained the tsunami as a punishment from God for the low sexual morals of the people of the area where it happened, others explained it as a natural disaster. Dr. Zaghloul al-Najjār stressed that whoever says that the tsunami earthquake is a natural phenomenon is kāfir [...
Date of source: Saturday, February 12, 2005
It is neither proper nor wise of some to explain natural disasters as revenge on the part of Almighty God (e.g., the recent Tsunami disaster that claimed the lives of nearly 300,000 people).
Date of source: Sunday, January 16, 2005
Dr. ‘Alī Jumca, Muftī of Egypt, allowed the cremating the bodies of the victims of the Tsunami that hit Asia, in order to prevent the spread of epidemics. This opinion raised arguments in Egypt and the Azhar.
Date of source: Saturday, January 8, 2005
During a Friday sermon, the speaker discussed the Tsunami and described it as the act of an angry God. He stated that God was punishing those who transgressed his bounds. Two days later, I saw the Islamic researcher, Dr. Zaghloul al-Najjār, in a live discussion on a satellite channel. He was...
Date of source: Thursday, August 12, 1999
[Compilation from wires from various agencies]
Muslims shuttered themselves indoors on the orders of clerics and others flocked to mosques Wednesday as earthquakes and an unseasonable hailstorm intensified eclipse unease in the Middle East.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 11, 1999
The Mufti called all the Egyptian Muslims to pray the eclipse prayer from the beginning of the solar eclipse until its end.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 10, 1999
Newspapers published their advice to the people. Also doctors and exorcists offered advise. The Azhar did nothing but should call for prayer.
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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.