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Date of source: Wednesday, September 26, 2001
Rev. Dr. John Hiemstra, Director of the office of the New York Council of Churches, wrote that there is less restraint in blaming Arabs than for blaming Muslims for the attacks in America, as many think they are against America. He also pointed out that there is a difference between what educated...
Date of source: Friday, September 21, 2001
[This letter was mailed to us by father Dr. Christiaan van Nispen s.j.]
Although there were people rejoicing throughout the Third World over the attacks in America, only Palestinians were pictured celebrating by the Western media. One of the numerous Western cameras that fill Israel will always...
Date of source: Saturday, September 22, 2001 to Friday, September 28, 2001
The Americans use a pattern of freedom different from all other societies. They consider their country to be a dream world. However, the events of September 11 transformed this pattern into one similar to the countries of the third world, which is increased frustration, lost freedom and a confused...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 19, 2001
The author is of the opinion that the attacks in America were against Arabs and Muslims not against Americans as they brought to life the scenario of attacking everything Arabic and Islamic. They brought back to life what is known in the West as Islamophobia. He does not think that the Islamic...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 19, 2001
The author is of the opinion that the reasons for the assaults on Muslims and Arabs after the attacks in the USA are to be found in the inability of Americans, whose views seem to be deeply effected by the American media, which tends to superficialize matters and look for excitement, to face the...
Date of source: Friday, September 21, 2001
The article gives excerpts of the address President George W. Bush gave after the attacks in America. Bush thanked the world for its outpouring of support. He pointed out that all the evidence they gathered pointed to Al-Qaida group led by Usama Bin Laden. He stressed that America’s enemy is not...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 12, 2001
The article is the text of a consolation letter by a Palestinian pastor over the attacks in America. He pointed out that the majority of Palestinians were shocked and saddened. He stressed that those whom the media has shown celebrating do not speak for or represent the entire Palestinian people.
Date of source: Saturday, September 22, 2001
Drs. Cornelis Hulsman was interviewed by Egyptian TV to speak about the role of Western media in reporting on the attack in America. The questions directed at him made it obvious that there is a deep mistrust of Western reporting about the Arab and Islamic world. The interviewer believed that...
Date of source: Friday, September 21, 2001
The image of Islam in French schoolbooks is very negative. The information the books cite is based on inaccurate translations from the Qur’an and on books biased against Islam. They introduce a false picture of jihad and marriage in Islam and tell incorrect stories about the Black Stone.
Date of source: Saturday, September 22, 2001 to Friday, September 28, 2001
The article deals with the differences between the way Islam is practiced in the Arabic countries and the way it is practiced in the Islamic Asian countries. It points out the dangers of Asiatic Islam. The author believes that Arabic Islam should reform Asiatic Islam, so that it does not turn into...
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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.