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Date of source: Saturday, September 18, 2004
Fatwa-making is a very serious task at the time religion has such an uncompetitive influence on human beings. Recently, Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi was harshly criticized for fawas that was incorrectly attributed to him. In the coming interview, Sheikh Al-Qaradawi answers questions about the fiqh [...
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 2004
Dr. Youssef Al-Qaradawi expressed his appreciation and all Muslims’ appreciation of the Azhar as the greatest Islamic reference. In an exclusive statement to Al-Liwaa Al-Islami, Al-Qaradawi denied that the World Union of Muslims Scholars whose creation was announced last month in London would...
Date of source: Saturday, September 4, 2004
The history of Arab armies shows that the political caliphate [rule] was turned into a religious dispute, and they considered waging a war against their rivals a religious duty. The armies of Abu Bakr Al-Sediq [the first Caliph] used to wage war against those who did not pay the Zakat [Obligatory...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 7, 2004
Last week, two martyrdom operations lead to the killing of 16 Israelis, and in Iraq, 12 Nepalis and three Turks were killed. All the bloodshed produced by these incidents is the product of violence, oppression and the disregard for humanity dignity. The real “terrorism” that the nations of Iraq,...
Date of source: Thursday, September 2, 2004
What has happened to us that has made our youth become professional kidnappers and assassins, and made suicide operations a means of resistance and expression? I ask this question and think about the Iraqi scenario where many European journalists and Turkish and Asian workers have been killed in...
Date of source: Monday, September 6, 2004
I admired the message sent by Dr. Kamal Chatila, the leader of the Nasserist Lebanese Party, to Sheikh Al-Harthy, head of the Authority of Muslim Scholars in Iraq. The message confirms that Muslims disagree with the barbarous acts committed by some Iraqis in the name of Islam or national liberation...
Date of source: Saturday, September 4, 2004
The latest incidents in Iraq are the most obvious evidence of our malady. The nationalists, the fundamentalists would rather call the latest incidents “resistance to occupation.” But the other side of these incidents is the inner illness of this society. This illness made it possible for what is...
Date of source: Friday, September 3, 2004
The kidnappers of foreign hostages in Iraq, whether they are affiliated with Al-Qa’ida or not, demand the removal of foreign military presence. They try to achieve this through kidnapping civilians whose only fault is that they are citizens of a certain country that agreed to the US’s call and sent...
Date of source: Thursday, September 2, 2004
The Lebanese Shiite religious authority Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Fadl Allah, released a statement that dealt with the child-hostage taking in Russia, and with events in Iraq. The statement said: “We reject – strongly – the hostage-taking of children in their school in southern Russia. We also reject...
Date of source: Saturday, September 4, 2004
There is a thin red line between veritable honorable resistance and acts of terrorism that not only harm Eastern Arab Muslims but also contemporary society in general. Acts of terrorism, which occupy the spotlight in the media, becomes horrific for everyone. Our image now after the broadcast of 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.