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Date of source: Monday, December 15, 2003
Dr. Larry Levine, an Orthodox Jewish professor from New York, USA, responds to Dr. Emara´s article in Al-Akhbar, December 12, 2003, AWR, 2003, week 50, art. 4. It is obvious Dr. Emara mixes between the teaching of Judaism and behavior he sees in practice in occupied territories. Claiming that the...
Date of source: Monday, December 15, 2003
Dr. Larry Levine criticizes Dr. Muhammad Emara´s comments on the Torah and Judaism in the previous issue of AWR. His main comment is that there is always the danger of reading any verse in the Hebrew Bible without the traditional commentaries. [Editor: Muslims would state that the same applies of...
Date of source: Saturday, November 29, 2003
The article is an interview with Dr. Youssef Al-Qaradawi. He commented on the fiqh of facilitation that he is famous for applying, the Islamic religious discourse, the schools of Islam and the top problem of the Islamic world today. He also commented on the conditions in Iraq and the possibility of...
Date of source: Friday, November 21, 2003
The author expresses the opinion that the aim behind the Western criticism of the Islamic religious discourse is to secularize Islam and thus empty it of its core. He comments on the effects of secularism on Western Christianity, believing that it left nothing but destruction. Thus he warned...
Date of source: Saturday, October 18, 2003
The article is an interview with Dr. Youssef Al-Qaradawi on the issue of renewing the religious discourse. He comments on the relation between renewal and ijtihad, saying that renewal means not thinking with the minds of our predecessors, but rather arriving at ijtihads for our time.
Date of source: Friday, September 19, 2003
The author comments on what he believes is an American attack on Islam, which started with the September 11 disaster. He believes that there a Western campaign to secularize Islam and turn it into a Christian form that accepts separation of religion and state.
Date of source: Sunday, September 14, 2003
The article presents views of religious scholars on the fatwa of murder of mercy that allows stopping the use of medical equipments in cases of brain death (clinical death).
Date of source: Thursday, August 7, 2003
The author continues refuting the arguments of people who believe that enforcing the Islamic Shari´a is not for the good of Islam nor for the good of people. Their first argument is that the Shari´a could not be enforced in Islamic countries where other religious groups live, because if the Shari´a...
Date of source: Thursday, July 31, 2003
Some people believe that enforcing the Islamic Shari´a is neither for the good of the religion [of Islam] nor for the good of people. They argue about how the Shari´a could be enforced in Islamic countries where other religious groups live. If the Shari´a is applied to Christians, this means that...
Date of source: Thursday, July 24, 2003
Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi pointed out is that Muslims in Europe or in non-Islamic societies in general need more facilitation. This fact is reflected in the fatwas of the council.
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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.