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Date of source: Thursday, August 5, 2004
Now the whole world is talking about reform, the Muslim Brotherhood does not want to miss the boat and has immediately released reform initiatives. Their initiative is very rational and polite; they spoke of citizenship and the honor of voting in elections. But is this vision compatible with the...
Date of source: Saturday, July 27, 2002
Rose El-Youssef’s special file for this week contains an interview with Abdullah Annas, a pioneering Arab Afghan and articles on new preachers, how terrorists have exploited cassette tapes to spread their ideas, the Prophet’s perception of terrorism, the Brotherhood’s perception of women, the issue...
Date of source: Saturday, January 19, 2002
Su’louk [plural sa’aleek] is a word that was used - in pre-Islamic times - to describe marginalized people who belonged to an insignificant tribe or an unimportant village.
Some people have created a form of fiqh called Al-Wilaya wa Al-Bara’a [the submission (to a leader (wali), group, ideology,...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Hassan El Banna, along with other Islamized people, started his
journey towards terrorism by confusing between jihad as an Islamic obligation and terrorism as a
means of terrifying Muslims and shedding blood.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 18, 2004
The relationship of the Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan Al-Banna with the king’s palace was characterized by unlimited support from the king, but finally led to the toughest crisis of the Brotherhood, the assassination of Al-Banna. Dr. Kariman Ibrahim Al-Maghraby wrote in her book, “The Muslim...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 12, 2001
Gamal Al-Banna believes that the violence of the Islamic groups is a reaction to the barbaric torture practiced by the State against the Muslim Brotherhood in the time of president Gamal Abdel-Nasser. Dr. Essam Al-Eryan said that some Islamic groups believe in the necessity of military action as a...
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: Saturday, May 12, 2001 to Friday, May 18, 2001
Muslim Brotherhood MPs demanded a change to freedom-restricting laws and also demanded political and democratic reform. Such an action made political circles wonder whether this was an indication of a radical transformation in the Brotherhood’s anti-freedom position, or an attempt by the...
Date of source: Sunday, March 11, 2001
The secretary and preacher of the Muslim Brotherhood was one of the people who called for reconsideration of the priorities of Islamist activity. He said that the Brotherhood’s strategic goal is founding an Islamic state to be classified outside secularism and that the priorities of the Brotherhood...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 27, 2000
The issue of the possibility of establishing a political party by the Muslim Brotherhood is still on the surface. The Muslim Brotherhood is something like a self-centered powerful lobby or a subtly-integrated community within the society. They have their customs, traditions and rituals. As far as...
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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.