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Date of source: Tuesday, August 26, 2003
The author comments on an article by Gamal Al-Banna in which he called upon the Azhar to “forget about banning books for the sake of Egypt.” The author argues in favor of the Azhar giving its opinion concerning religious books. “It is not the Azhar’s rejection of a certain book that creates...
Date of source: Monday, August 18, 2003
The Sheikh of the Azhar called on the youth, who misunderstand Islam and think that extremism is something good, to reconsider their ideologies through dialogue with Muslim scholars
Date of source: Tuesday, July 22, 2003
Eleven intellectuals comment on the statement the Sheikh of the Azhar gave in the International Islamic Conference in Malaysia concerning the prohibition of publishing books that urge extremism. They believe that such decision may back the banning policy.
Date of source: Saturday, July 12, 2003
The Sheikh of the Azhar, Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, called for preventing the publication of books that encourage terrorism. He did not give examples of such books but simply stated that these are books issued by terrorists and contain radical ideas.
Date of source: Sunday, May 15, 2005
Fundamentalists are the most eager sectors for power and authority. They target weak people and try to convince them that they are promoting real Islam and genuine faith. But they are in fact terrorists that promote what Islam forbade, like murder and destruction under the pretext that society is...
Date of source: Saturday, May 7, 2005
Westerners did not learn the old lesson when they provided a shelter for the inhuman wolves in their war against communism in Afghanistan. They did not learn from giving shelter to fugitives from justice in Egypt who planned black terrorism, in spite of president Husnī Mubārak’s continuous appeals...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 30, 2003
The author asks whether extremist Islamic fundamentalist movements, which believe in jihad and martyrdom as ways of combating occupation, will grow with the US invasion of Iraq. The author also discusses the relation between the US and Islamic countries after the war.
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Date of source: Tuesday, May 10, 2005
A war is raging now in Yemen between the government and those who the government describes as the pro-Husayn al-Hawthī rebels who adhere to al-Zaydī doctrine (madhhab) and former member of the Parliament. Nevertheless, some sources said that the circle of conflict had widened and covered all...
Date of source: Monday, May 9, 2005
Cassette tapes urging jihād, bloodshed and relentlessness have been flooding the Egyptian market lately. They are produced in Saudi Arabia and exported to us via Egyptians coming home from hajj or cumra [lesser pilgrimage].
The objective pursued by these tapes was to give the impression that “we...
Date of source: Friday, March 28, 2003
The statement of the Islamic Research Institute calling for jihad against the US for its war on Iraq raises the anger of Muslims and Copts in Egypt and Christian churches outside Egypt. This is because it describes the US war as a new crusade. As a result, the Sheikh of the Azhar recommended the...
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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.