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Date of source: Wednesday, February 1, 2006
In the drama that followed the republishing of the Danish cartoons across several European nations, the Danish and Norwegian Embassies in Damascus, and also the Danish Consulate in Beirut, were all burnt down. These incidents prompted those foreign ministers to advise their people to leave Syria...
Date of source: Monday, January 30, 2006
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he personally condemned the cartoons published in Jyllands-Posten. In an interview with the Danish TV2 station, Rasmussen said that he respected religious beliefs and that would prevent him from depicting Muhammad, Jesus or any other religious symbol...
Date of source: Monday, January 16, 2006
In January the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) and the Islamic Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALESCO) invited seven Arab experts, including the author of this article, Dr. Ikrām Lam‘ī, to discuss intercultural dialogue.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 18, 2001
The Pakistani press reported that the US decided to control religious education in Pakistan. Saudi sources said that the Saudi ministry of education was revising the Islamic schoolbooks to make sure that the subjects of the books agree with the general tendency to counter extremism. The President...
Date of source: Saturday, December 15, 2001 to Friday, December 21, 2001
The article gives an overview of the life of terrorist Muhammad Abul-Saud. He is an example of the double agent. The Pentagon and the CIA sent him to Afghanistan in order to collect information about the Mujahideen there. His mission was to supervise the fighting operations against the Soviet...
Date of source: Saturday, November 17, 2001 to Friday, November 23, 2001
The British authorities discovered that a security company called Sakina was recruiting British Muslim youth and sending them to Chechnya and Afghanistan to participate in Jihad against the Christian West. Therefore they closed the company and arrested its members. The members of Sakina are...
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: 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...
Date of source: Monday, August 20, 2001
Taliban refused to renew visas given to three western diplomats who are waiting in Kabul to meet their citizens working in rescue agencies. The citizens are accused of Christian missionary activity in Afghanistan.
Date of source: Sunday, December 17, 2000
This is the third part of the dramatic scene in which the writer gives the pros and the cons of the idea of establishing an Islamic party by the Muslim Brotherhood through a conversation between three friends [see RNSAW week 49, article 6 and week 50, article 3]. The friend who opposed the idea is...
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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.