Date of source: Monday, October 22, 2001
During the last few weeks, Americans ask why Muslims hate America? Sometimes the word "Muslims" was replaced by "the world." Muslims in their turn should ask themselves does what happened recently affected their image and their good relationships with non-Muslims in Arabic countries and all over...
Date of source: Sunday, October 21, 2001
The ignorance about Islam and Muslims, which now prevails in the West, did not appear suddenly after the attacks of September 11. Many things happened in the West attracting Muslims’ attention to the growing danger against Islam. Still, the Islamic institutions did not take any steps forward. They...
Date of source: Sunday, October 14, 2001
Father Rafiq Greish expressed his belief that the terrorist attacks of September 11 and America’s response to them did not reflect a conflict between religions and a clash between civilizations, because religions are based on love and respect and accepting the other. He pointed out that the...
Date of source: Friday, October 12, 2001
The author commented on Berlusconi’s attack on Islam, saying that he seemed to have forgotten that terrorism in the name of religion was a European product that appeared in the European Middle Ages. While Europe was dwelling under terrorism in the Middle Ages, the Islamic civilization flourished...
Date of source: Saturday, October 13, 2001
The terrorist attacks of September 11 brought to the surface the issue of the clash between civilizations, which was thought to have disappeared with the appearance of globalization. If Muslims reject the idea of a clash being there between civilizations and think there should be a dialogue...
Date of source: Friday, October 12, 2001
The author believes that the idea of the clash between civilizations seems to be illogical if seen in the frame of globalization, which leads to dialogue between civilizations not to a clash between them. According to him, it is more accurate to say that there is a state of civilizational aversion...
Date of source: Monday, October 8, 2001
The brutality of the attacks of September 11 made Europe and America disclose their true feelings against Arabs and Muslims, who were accused right away after the attacks. These real feelings show the West, which claims to be democratic and considerate about human rights is not. The whole issue is...
Date of source: Sunday, March 19, 2006
Broder writes about Dr. Wafa Sultan, a Syrian-American Muslim who recently complained bitterly against those who distort Islam. She strongly renounced terrorism, and Muslim backwardness and violence, saying these things were not what the Prophet Muhammad and the Qur’ān intended. The response,...
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The Turkish ambassador to Egypt speaks about Islamic dialogue, particularly in relation to the current Iraq crisis, and the need for dialogue between the Islamic world and the West.
Date of source: Saturday, March 11, 2006
Muhammad Hilāl reports on the statements of Shaykh Dr. Muhammad Bashār ‘Arafāt on inter-cultural understanding.