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Date of source: Monday, September 9, 2002
The Center of Future Studies and Researches, headed by Montasser Al-Zayyat, held a seminar on the Islamic movements after September11. Ayman Al-Zawahry, whom Al-Zayyat invited to participate in the seminar via any means, did not turn up. However, his uncle participated.
Date of source: Monday, September 9, 2002
After September 11, some people expected or hoped that political Islam would come to an end. However, events that followed showed that the consequences of September 11 did not only affect political Islam but also Islam itself. Some people in America called for combating Islamic ideas after...
Date of source: Friday, August 23, 2002
Bat Ye´or wrote about jihad with political implications. This is enough to make one expect partiality in tone. The current situation in the Palestinian territories is another factor that influences the way many write about Jihad. By contrast to what Ye´or says, Islam does ask its adherents to...
Date of source: Friday, August 23, 2002
The Jewish American writer Bat Ye´or published on July 1, 2002, an article on jihad in Islam on the Internet. The article is full of mistakes. It misperceives and distorts the concept of jihad. Dr. Abdel-Mo´ti Bayoumi refutes these mistakes.
Date of source: Monday, July 1, 2002
The author discusses the concept of jihad in Islam in relation to the concept of human rights. She believes that the two concepts are incompatible. While the Universal Declaration of Human Rights does not refer to any religion or to the superiority of any group over another, but stresses the...
Date of source: Thursday, July 25, 2002
The author presented a draft statement for dialogue between Egyptian and American cultured people. A Christian pastor asked whether cultured people [educated, belonging to a higher social class] belonging to the Islamic movement agree to sign the proposed statement while they reject dialogue. The...
Date of source: Saturday, June 1, 2002
[AWR: This is a full text translation of a Dutch text with permission of the author.]
Sociology professor Saad Eddin Ibrahim: “You can beat Saddam Hussein, no doubt. But what you cannot do is prevent a new Saddam Hussein from appearing, a new Bin Laden. As long as there is no democracy, no state...
Date of source: Thursday, June 6, 2002 to Wednesday, June 12, 2002
Extremist groups failed to obtain power through weapons because the government fought against them. But if the government was able to prevent them gaining political control of the country, it was not able to prevent them controlling the minds of people. Extremist groups started directing their...
Date of source: Saturday, July 6, 2002 to Friday, July 12, 2002
Rose El-Youssef´s special file on extremism for this week shows how the magazine resisted extremism. It also discussed the reasons for Egypt´s success in overcoming terrorism, the issue of the cassettes containing lectures by sheikhs who claim to preach in the name of religion, the...
Date of source: Saturday, June 15, 2002 to Saturday, June 22, 2002
Historically political movements were started by groups taking a certain stand but then then they changed into ideologies that merely justified the situation. Some of the people engaged in political activities used verses from the Qur´an to support their political stand.
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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.