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Date of source: Friday, January 17, 2003
The 14th Islamic Fiqh Conference issued a fatwa to the effect that it is illegal to support aggressors against Iraq. However, the final statement of the conference does not express any clear-cut stand towards martyrdom operations.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 30, 2005
A senior Muslim cleric in London issued a fatwa saying that suicide operations are halāl [religiously permissible], according to Islamic sharīca. He even said that they are a religious obligation. However, following the bombings on the London Underground that killed scores of people and has led to...
Date of source: Saturday, August 20, 2005 to Friday, August 26, 2005
Lewis Fahīm considers the best way to confront terrorism.
Date of source: Thursday, August 10, 2006 to Wednesday, August 16, 2006
By far the majority of Muslims today live their lives without recourse to violence, for the Koran is like a pick-and-mix selection. If you want peace, you can find peaceable verses. If you want war, you can find bellicose verses. You can find verses which permit only defensive jihad, or you can...
Date of source: Sunday, August 14, 2005
After experiencing despair and hopelessness for a certain extent of time, the human mind eventually refuses to recover, and indeed seeks even more despair and hopelessness. These kinds of people, who make misery for themselves, can ruin others’ lives so that they can live in peace.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Questions remain concerning the psychological, emotional, and mental state which makes a normal person kill hundreds of people. The future terrorist believes that Muslims alone are treated cruelly and neglected by the rest of the world. This ‘loneliness’ influences the terrorist’s psychology and...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 9, 2005
Arab political and religious discourse, including the mass media, has failed to access the terrorist mentality, simply because official and religious institutions have locked the door to ijtihād [religious debate that allows for the creation of new rules and fatwas concerning modern issues].
Date of source: Monday, August 1, 2005
Every believer wonders how the ‘human bomb’ that kills innocents is regarded as an ‘Islamic’ product and how some ‘lost’ groups continue spreading its poisonous ideas – but they receive no answer from the scholars or research academies.
Date of source: Monday, August 1, 2005
The murder of the Brazilian Jean Charles De Menezes by Scotland Yard police officers has rung an alarm bell for the world’s conscience. The accident took place after British police officers were instructed to follow a shoot-to-kill policy if they came across a person suspected of being a suicide...
Date of source: Monday, August 1, 2005
Zudhī Ahmad, an 18-year-old student, wears a black hat in imitation of Abu Muscab al-Zarqāwī, who has become a ‘folk hero’ for many Jordanian young men, even if they do not agree that killing civilians in suicide operations is justified.
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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.