Date of source: Thursday, October 12, 2006
Mijāhid Khalaf
interviews the Islamic thinker Zaghlūl al-Najjār,
who discusses the West’s misperceptions of Islam.
Date of source: Thursday, October 5, 2006
Shaykh Mansūr al-
Rifā‘ī, former under secretary at the Ministry of Endowments, says that God describes
Muslims as the best people that have been brought forth for mankind as long as they "enjoin right conduct,
forbid
indecency and believe in God." While exonerating Islam from the charges of...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 11, 2006
On
Friday, Danish television aired an amateur video showing young members of the anti-immigrant Danish
People’s
Party taking part in a competition to draw cartoons ridiculing the prophet, one year after
the publication
of the "offensive" cartoons by the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten. In an...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 6, 2007
AWR’s year report shows the tremendous amount of work carried out in 2006.
Comment on ‘Coptic Christian Fights Deportation to Egypt, Fearing Torture.’ in New York Times.
Report on conversion stories presented on VCD.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Ākhir Sā‘ah interviews Dr.
Talāl ‘Īd,
the director of the Religious Affairs Islamic Institute of Boston, about the
situation of Muslim communities
in the United States.
Date of source: Friday, September 29, 2006
Dr. Muhammad ‘Imārah explains why he prefers an Islamic model of societal
organisation above the Western, secular one. He refutes the purely rational, positivist Western society in
which
religion has been replaced by science and reason.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 4, 2006
The author
argues that
the West’s advancement has nothing to do with being Christian or Muslim but is dependent on the
social
capabilities of people in a specific geographic region.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 4, 2006
The author argues that
the relationship between the Qur’ān and
science and the outdated books taught at some
Azhar schools are behind the backwardness of the Muslim
East.
Date of source: Friday, October 6, 2006
This article compares Arab and Western
perspectives on the mind and
faith and explains the Islamic concept of equality between men and women.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Drs. Cornelis Hulsman presented this text at the recent roundtable discussions of the European Institute of the Mediterranean, which were held on “Journalism and freedom of expression in the Mediterranean; responsibilities and limits.”