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Date of source: Friday, November 30, 2001
The president of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the People’s Assembly affirmed the importance of changing the Arabic discourse for a better understanding of the other [the West]. He said that there is an Arabic-Islamic revival that should be turned into an active civilizing power. He added that...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 27, 2001
The idea of a conflict between civilizations is not a Western invention, but almost an Islamic-Arabic one. Arabs believe the illusion that they are a threat to the West and that the West keeps conspiring against them. They always try to see others as responsible for their failures. Such feelings...
Date of source: Saturday, December 1, 2001
The attacks of September 11 disclosed the existence of a historical misunderstanding between Islam and the West. The image of Islam in the eyes of the West is not good and likewise the image of the West in the eyes of Islam. For the two images to be corrected, a cultural mediator who understands...
Date of source: Friday, November 23, 2001
Dr. Milad Hanna and Sheikh Fawzy Al-Zafzaf, the president of the Azhar Permanent Committee for Inter-Religious Dialogue, stress the importance of the dialogue. They agree that the events of September 11 awakened the Islamic media which urges to correct the distorted image of Islam.
Date of source: Sunday, November 25, 2001
The recent American crisis revealed the West’s misunderstanding of Arabs and Muslims. Both sides are responsible for that misunderstanding. No one said that Christianity was against the American civilization when McVeigh proved to be the one behind Oklahoma attacks. However, Muslims were said to...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 27, 2001
The November 23 article of Al-Musawwar, "Is the West still Dar Kufr," resulted four days later (November 28) in a campaign by the US Copts Association against the use of the word kuffar for Christians. The association claims that calling someone a ’kafir’ [’kafir’ is the singular of ’kufar’] is a...
Date of source: Friday, November 23, 2001
According to Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi, there are three kinds of kufr [unbelief]. There is atheism [elhad], which is a total denial of the existence of the Almighty God. There is polytheism [shirk], which means believing in more than one god. The third kind is the denial of Islam and the message...
Date of source: Saturday, November 17, 2001 to Friday, November 23, 2001
The book "The New Crusader War" mentioned a fatwa to the effect that if the murderer of the innocent people in America is a Muslim, he has to pay half the diyya [compensation money] to the families of murdered Muslims and nothing more. Usama Bin Laden expressed the same opinion when he was asked...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 14, 2001
One of the strange things about the current American war, which talks of fighting terrorism as one of its main targets, is that it started after the world witnessed a decline in terrorism. When terrorism was active, America was among the countries hosting it. Most of the leaders of the extremist...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 13, 2001
It has become dangerous to tell simple people frankly that the Afghan and Jihad Islamic groups do not understand politics and that they are the reason behind the tragedy of Afghanistan. It has become clear that such groups, intentionally, involve Arabs, Muslims and Islam in an absurd unequal...
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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.