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Date of source: Sunday, November 7, 2004
Dutch police arrested yesterday a 23-year-old Moroccan man suspected of involvement in the stabbing to death filmmaker Theo Van Gogh last Tuesday.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 3, 2004
A Dutch filmmaker, who produced a controversial film depicting Islamic culture in an offensive way, was assassinated by a Moroccan man. Theo Van Gogh, 37, was stabbed an shot yesterday after a series of death threats that he received during the screening of his film, “Submission,” on Dutch...
Date of source: Saturday, November 6, 2004
Minister of Information Dr. Mamdouh Al-Beltagui requested that “A girl from Shubra” [Bent Min Shubra] be screened before the Church and the Azhar before being aired on Egyptian television. We say that the decision of the minister is unwise. Nothing in the television series raises the necessity of...
Date of source: Sunday, November 7, 2004
Due to his interest in Islamic sciences and profound search for the essence of Islam, Judge Edwar Ghali Al-Dahabi, former head of State Lawsuits Authority, was granted the first-class medal of science and art during the celebrations of the Birthday of Prophet Muhammad in 1994 to be the first Copt...
Date of source: Monday, November 1, 2004
In 1977, Manqateen’s Coptic residents applied to the authorities concerned for a permit to build a church in the name of Anba Antonious. To date, no approval has been issued. It is outrageous that the political, local or security authorities should persist in stalling a legitimate demand—one...
Date of source: Saturday, November 6, 2004
In less than two months I have heard the talk about the jizya [tax on non-Muslims under a Muslim government] taking place twice from our honorable scholars.
I tried as much as I could to avoid involvement in this thorny issue but finally I realized that the return of this sectarian undertone to...
Date of source: Sunday, November 7, 2004
Moving from one chapter to another in Dr. Abdel Sabour Shahin’s book My Father Adam, a reader is overwhelmed with shocking lines and the worst of them all was the content of the fourth chapter titled Satan’s Attitude on Prostration.
Date of source: Friday, November 5, 2004
Jurisprudential controversy over bank interest is back again with a fatwa of the Grand Imam of the Azhar saying interests are halal [lawful according to the Islamic shari’a] whether they are fixed in advance or not. However, bank interest is still a hot issue for many religious scholars.
Date of source: Monday, November 8, 2004
Propagators of that so-called miraculous science in the Qur’an are just trying to brainwash us and adulterate our awareness under the pretext of entrenching our faith and proving that we are better than all other nations when it comes to religion and science. The obstinate insistence that the Qur’...
Date of source: Thursday, November 4, 2004
Scholars got together at the Forum for Islamic Thought that is organized by the Higher Council for Islamic Affairs at the Ministry of Awqaf [religious Endowments]. They discussed many points and stressed that Islam is a form of tolerance God revealed to the world and that it is not in need of...
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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.