Date of source: Tuesday, February 10, 2004
The article is an interview with Dr. Ali Al-Samman, the Deputy of the Permanent Committee for
Inter-Religious Dialogue. Issues discussed in the interview include
inter-religious dialogue,
acts of violence, extremism, the relation between the Arab World and the West.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 10, 2004
Refuting Islam’s association with terrorism, Minister of Endowments Muhammad Zaqzouq
explained that terrorism contradicts the tolerant principles of Islam. He also pointed out that
it is unfair to generalize and make accusation against a fifth of the world’s population as a
result of the foolish...
Date of source:
The article is an interview with Dr. Nadia
Mustafa, professor of International Relations, head of the Center for Political Research and head
of the Program for Dialogue between Civilizations at Cairo University. Dr. Mustafa admits our
society’s need for renewing the religious discourse and she...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Chirac sees that his country has five million Muslims trying to congregate to remain in
isolation and reject France’s culture. What Chirac wants, as he read in his statement, is to
“prevent [groups from] clinging onto their affiliation to [their] groups that might threaten the
society by [these...
Date of source: Saturday, December 18, 2004
Al-
Qaradāwī has been able to establish himself as a prominent Islamic thinker in the last
few years. In all his books, al-Qaradāwī raised some heated arguments in his opinions
concerning misyar marriage, banning veils in France, etc.
Date of source: Thursday, April 8, 2004
Sheikh Youssef
Al-Qaradawi focuses in an interview on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, including Jihad,
martyrdom operations and the peace process.
Date of source: Monday, April 19, 2004
All Muslims believe that martyrdom is the greatest deed a person can do to go in Paradise. Allah tells us in the Qur’an that martyrs are not actually dead people, for they are alive in Heaven and in Paradise. That is why all true Muslims wish for martyrdom. The Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat...
Date of source: Saturday, April 24, 2004
That person who bombed himself in a security building in Riyadh last Wednesday committed the gravest spoil on earth, destroying human life.
The criminal act that took place is not linked to the religion revealed to Muhammad, but. It is the religion of the ignorant, of desires, of the hard-hearted...
Date of source: Saturday, May 1, 2004
The kingdom of Saudi Arabia saw many violent events and bombings after the Second Gulf War [1991] and Kuwait’s occupation by Iraqi forces. Terrorist acts started in 1995 with a car explosion killing three Americans. 2003 witnessed a development as a
confrontation started between the Jihadi Stream...
Date of source: Saturday, May 1, 2004
The terrorist attacks that took place in Mizza in Damascus last week are the first to take place in Syria in a long time. These attacks raised many possibilities about who the perpetrators might be. Many analysts have linked the bombings with the situation in Iraq and Palestine and the feelings of...