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Date of source: Monday, October 22, 2001
For the first time the lawyer of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya in Egypt appeared on official Egyptian TV, as the guest of the television program "Penetration." He expressed his opinions concerning the reasons that push radical fundamentalists to resort to violence.
Date of source: Saturday, October 20, 2001 to Friday, October 26, 2001
"The Islamic Guiding Center" in Cairo or "Kabul Mosque" as its members call it introduces various religious and social services. The article sheds light on theses activities and points out that the members of the newly formed organization Al-Wa’d used to gather in the Kabul mosque. The security...
Date of source: Saturday, October 20, 2001 to Friday, October 26, 2001
Sheikh Fawzy Al-Said is the mufti of a newly formed Islamic group called Al-Wa’d. He issued many cassette tapes in which he asks Muslims to join the jihad and fight against other foreign countries which he describes as "The anti Christ." He gave some fatwas demanding that Muslims who belong to the...
Date of source: Saturday, October 13, 2001
The author refuted what V.S. Naipaul said about Islam being a disaster for Asia as it wiped out all the public cultures of the countries it conquered. He gave Egypt and Spain as examples of the fact that Islam did not wipe out the cultures of the countries it conquered but interacted with them. He...
Date of source: Saturday, October 20, 2001 to Friday, October 26, 2001
The Minister of the Interior sent a letter to the Sheikh of the Azhar telling him about a challenging Internet site called the "Jihad of the Apostates" sending forth lies about the Qur’an and the Prophet. The minister asked the Sheikh of the Azhar to cooperate in correcting its deviant thoughts by...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 16, 2001
Interview about the opinion of the Coptic Orthodox Church on the attack on September 11 and the attack on Afghanistan. The bishop is criticizing Egyptian media and fears escalation.
Date of source: Monday, October 15, 2001
The Military Prosecution started to investigate 80 fundamentalists for being members of a secret group that aims at overthrowing the governing authorities. The lawyer of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya, denied that any of his accused clients had any relations with Bin Laden or with Ayman Al-Zawahry, the...
Date of source: Saturday, October 13, 2001
A demonstration against attacking Afghanistan erupted in the Azhar mosque after Friday prayers. The demonstrators were led by some parliamentary members and members of Islamic and leftist parties. They were shouting against attacking innocent Afghan people and asked for the same way of fighting...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 10, 2001
Thousands of students demonstrated in the universities of Egypt, condemning the American attacks on Afghanistan. They held a massive conference, during which they phoned Dr. Youssef Al-Qaradawi, who made a statement on the telephone, saying that terrorism was an American fabrication and that what...
Date of source: Saturday, October 13, 2001
Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi criticized the attitude the ministers of foreign affairs of the Islamic countries adopted in the Doha conference. He observed that it did not express the feelings of the Islamic street and that he was hoping the Islamic ministerial conference would declare its opinion...
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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.