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Date of source: Saturday, December 1, 2001 to Friday, December 7, 2001
The article gives an overview of the history of the new military leader of Al-Qa’eda organization. The author believes him to be an example on the duality of the West’s attitude towards terrorism. He was created by the CIA during the Soviet-Afghan war and now he is wanted by the American...
Date of source: Sunday, December 2, 2001
In this article Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi speaks about Islam and secularism, the weakness and disunity among Muslims, the Muslims’ aggression towards the West, the violence of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya and the responsibility of the preachers, thinkers and the governments towards correcting the...
Date of source: Saturday, December 1, 2001
The attacks of September 11 disclosed the existence of a historical misunderstanding between Islam and the West. The image of Islam in the eyes of the West is not good and likewise the image of the West in the eyes of Islam. For the two images to be corrected, a cultural mediator who understands...
Date of source: Sunday, November 25, 2001
The recent American crisis revealed the West’s misunderstanding of Arabs and Muslims. Both sides are responsible for that misunderstanding. No one said that Christianity was against the American civilization when McVeigh proved to be the one behind Oklahoma attacks. However, Muslims were said to...
Date of source: Saturday, November 17, 2001 to Friday, November 23, 2001
The Kuwaiti authorities closed 127 illegal charity institutions following claims of Al-Qa’eda organization that the Gulf countries are the largest financial resources of the organization. Besides, the USA required the Kuwaiti government to tightly control such institutions. The Kuwaiti prime...
Date of source: Saturday, November 17, 2001 to Friday, November 23, 2001
The book "The New Crusader War" mentioned a fatwa to the effect that if the murderer of the innocent people in America is a Muslim, he has to pay half the diyya [compensation money] to the families of murdered Muslims and nothing more. Usama Bin Laden expressed the same opinion when he was asked...
Date of source: Sunday, November 11, 2001
A Pakistani journalist interviewed Usama Bin Laden who said that if America used chemical or nuclear weapons against his group, they may retort with chemical and nuclear weapons. He added that the Pakistani president would be punished by the Pakistani people and Allah for cooperating with America.
Date of source: Thursday, November 8, 2001
The United States added the Muslim Brotherhood to its war against terrorism. On the other hand, Italy approved an American request to suspend two of the main important historical leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Date of source: Saturday, November 10, 2001 to Friday, November 16, 2001
Dr. Rifa’at Al-Said, the general secretary of the Tagammu opposition party, believes that Islamizing politics is the essence of terrorism and that the Muslim Brotherhood were the first to use terrorism. He stresses that that Islam is not a fertile ground for radical thoughts as some people claim.
Date of source: Friday, November 9, 2001
One of the consequences of the attacks of September 11 is that America is now trying to correct its image in the eyes of the Arabic and Islamic world. The American Secretary of State said that America should not give some Arabic radical groups the chance to speak of it as an anti-Muslim country.
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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.