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Date of source: Wednesday, September 21, 2005
In a phone call to al-Sharq al-Awsat, Egyptian fundamentalist, Muhammad Zakī Mahjoub, claimed that Usāma Bin Lādin, leader of al-Qā‘ida, used money to recruit young Muslims.
Date of source: Saturday, October 9, 2004
Marc Sageman, a former secret CIA agent, has authored a book titled “Understanding Terror Networks.” Sageman, a 51-year-old holder of a PhD in sociology, said in his book that the strong friendship, not religion, was the bond that brought together extremists.
Their love of one another, Sageman...
Date of source: Friday, September 17, 2004
The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Miguel Moratinos, is among those who offered suggestions that address the phenomenon of terrorism in a practical manner away from the approach based on military power adopted by many others. Miguel Moratinos stressed the necessity of creating a strategic...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 2004
Dr. Mustafa Ceric, the renowned Bosnian thinker and the Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina, won the UNESCO peace prize for this year shared with the French Cardinal [Roger] Etchegaray in recognition of his efforts to make peace in Bosnia and the world. Dr. Ceric asked Bosnian soldiers during the...
Date of source: Saturday, August 7, 2004
Mixing the two concepts of jihad and liberation has made many Arabs support Al-Qa’ida’s actions in Iraq considering it Jihad. Declaring jihad became open field for anyone who wants to act against his government, his country or against other countries. There is a big difference between the concept...
Date of source: Thursday, May 27, 2004
In his book “Al-Walla wa Al-Baraa” [infidelity and renouncement], Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahry collected a number of verses to prove that any true Muslim must not be loyal to pagans and People of the Book and to renounce non-Muslims and take them as enemies.
That is why the Qa’eda organization insists on...
Date of source: Sunday, June 6, 2004
What led me to interview Dr. Ayman Sabri Farag, or Abu Gaffar Al-Masry Al-Kandahari, was not his ideas, most of which I disagree with. Apart from this, there are many who embrace the same ideas. I was actually attracted to his outstanding, unique loyalty to and total absorption in his own ideas,...
Date of source: Monday, June 21, 2004
The leaders of the Egyptian Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya criticized Al-Qa’ida, led by Usama Ben Laden, as “having strange calculations and mixing things up because it declared war on the whole world when it does not have enough power.” The leaders of Al-Gama’a stressed in their new book that Al-Qa’ida “...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 7, 2004
Fundamentalists are very active on the Internet. They master the World Wide Web to their advantage in many cases. It is very easy to search for a book on fundamentalism on the Internet, and you may find the whole book available for free. The only thing you need is to know how to search the Internet...
Date of source: Friday, January 10, 2003
A Yemeni extremist killed three American missionaries on December 30, 2002, in a Southern Baptist hospital in Yemen. He was quoted as saying he killed the Americans to cleanse his religion and get closer to Allah. The murder triggered Western commentaries about the role of Western missionaries in...
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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.