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Date of source: Sunday, January 29, 2006
Sa‘d al-Dīn Ibrāhīm states that fear of, and interest in, Islam have grown since September 11, 2001, and that Muslims should not deny this fact or settle for hurling naأ¯ve accusations against others of "concocting intrigues and conspiracies" against Islam.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 4, 2006
Ahmad Shawqī al-Fanjarī blames the backwardness of Muslims on three persons, namely "the extremist Indian writer Abu al-‘Ala al-Mawdudī, the illiterate Bedouin Mufti who spearheads the Wahābī call ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Bin Bāz and Mullah Muhammad ‘Umar who applies his fatwas with whips and guns in...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 4, 2006
The German province has applied an oral exam of 30 questions to make sure Muslim applicants for German nationality are loyal to, and ready to merge into German society.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 4, 2006
While the wave of anti-Islam keeps rising in the West and some associate Islam with terrorism, Karen Armstrong, a British writer who specialized in comparative theology, defends the Muslim faith. She is highly critical of Tony Blair’s decision to support the U.S. war on Iraq.
Date of source: Saturday, December 24, 2005
‘Ādil Darwīsh believes that there is a common factor among Sydney’s "racial” demonstrations, France’s riots, the London bombings, the Madrid bombings and the murder of Dutch filmmaker, Theo Van Gogh. According to Darwīsh, in all cases, the big cultural gap between immigrants and natives has bred...
Date of source: Friday, December 23, 2005
Muhammad ‘Umāra argues that the misinterpretation of the verses 58-63 of al-Anfāl chapter [Editor: The spoils of war] is the main reason behind the spread of false perceptions about Islam.
Date of source: Saturday, December 17, 2005
The author stresses the need for reaching a clear-cut international definition of terrorism and states that Muslim immigrants are like timed bombs, waiting to explode since they can be easily recruited by terrorists.
Date of source: Monday, December 12, 2005
A commentary on the problem of those who would turn Islam from a religion into a political system.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Khālid Ahmad al-Tarrāh describes the symposium on terrorism and extremism which linked terrorist acts extremism to poverty, unemployment, political struggle and the widening socio-economic gap.
Date of source: Saturday, November 19, 2005
In a symposium cosponsored by the Kuwaiti Information Office and the newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat, participants from the Arab world as well as the West shared their thoughts and ideas about terrorism and its origins.
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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.