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German orientalist Tillman Nagel, director of the Arab and Islamic Studies Institution at the German University of Goetingen, speaks about the role of orientalists in explaining Islam to the West. He comments on globalization, the West´s campaign against Islam, the Palestinian and Iraqi issues...
The ongoing conflict between Islam and the West resulted in the stereotypical image each party has formed of the other. Islam has been stereotyped as a daily danger for average Western citizens. Arabs and Muslims should try to abolish such image.
A symposium was held in the residence of the Greek Catholic Patriarchy to discuss the role of Arab Christians in correcting the image of Islam in the West and the stand of the Vatican towards the expected war against Iraq among other issues.
The Council of American-Islamic Relations [CAIR] asked Christian leaders in Florida to remove a sign hanging outside a Protestant Church there as it offends Islam. CAIR says that the sign may contribute to the increasing intolerant feelings towards Muslims in Florida.
The president of the British Islamic Center requested that the British government ban the showing of a Norwegian commercial for a British airline company. The commercial allegedly distorts the image of Muslims.
The Dutch People´s Party for Freedom and Democracy [VVD] demands that the flow of incoming imams for mosques in The Netherlands from Islamic countries be halted, starting in the year 2007. It also demands to forbid giving work permits for imams coming from outside the country.
The author criticizes the Azhar for not defending Islam against the Western attacks. He gives many examples on how Islam is attacked in the Western press and by American Evangelical leaders.
Overview of a report by Human Rights Watch on hate crimes against Arabs and Muslims. The report says that anti-Muslim hate crimes in the US rose 1700 percent during 2001.
The American paper Tallahassee Democrat apologized to Muslims in the US and suspended one of its newsmen after he made disparaging remarks about Arabs and Muslims.
Egyptian Muslim thinker, Dr. ‘Abd al-Sabour Shahīn believes western countries are willfully attacking Islam. He feels the confrontation will not abate, but grow more fierce.

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