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Date of source: Monday, October 11, 2004
We wonder why Pope Shenouda did not investigate Zakariya Botros’s insults against Islam. Accountant and researcher in Coptic affairs Kamal Zakhir Moussa says that the church has to declare its official stance towards Zakariya Botros. He also asks Pope Shenouda to be more definite and transparent...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 28, 2004
The international organization of the Muslim Brotherhood was influenced tangibility by the regional and international changes caused by the attacks of September 11. What is the story of the International organization, problems and internal conflicts it triggered inside the Brotherhood?
Date of source: Monday, September 27, 2004
Competition in the Bar Association elections is expected to be between Sameh Ashour, the present chief, and Raga’i Attia, his former competitor. The Muslim Brotherhood insists on overthrowing Ashour no matter how. Muhammad Touson, the person in charge of the lawyers’ department at the Guidance...
Date of source: Monday, September 27, 2004
One feels terrified when one hears about the recent acts of kidnapping hostages in Iraq. Kidnappers always raise Islamic mottos that encourage taking civilians as hostages in time of war. I hurried to the Mufti, Sheikh Ali Goma’a, seeking answers to many questions so that I may be able convince...
Date of source: Monday, September 27, 2004
The London-based Arabic newspaper of Al-Quds Al-Arabi [The Arab Jerusalem], has conducted a poll in which about 11,000 visitors of their website took part. The poll showed that 41 percent of voters are in favor of the exclusion of the Muslim Brotherhood. The other 58.9 percent of voters opposed the...
Date of source: Saturday, September 25, 2004
When a website reported that a Chechen leader announced his responsibility for the hostage-taking operation of the students of a Russian school, he was actually introducing a new approach of war in Islam that Muslim scholars were very much opposed to. Taking hostages and making some demands in...
Date of source: Saturday, September 25, 2004
The rules of war in Islam involves all kinds of violations if they were evaluated by the ethics of today. These rules allowed the killing of hostages, taking possession of money and properties by force and abducting women, taking them as slaves and raping them. All these things were lawful under...
Date of source: Sunday, September 26, 2004
At the opening of the Cultural Season of the Islamic Council at the Nour Mosque in Abbasya, Grand Imam of the Azhar, Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, emphasized that the kidnapping of the six Egyptians in Iraq is a criminal act, and that Islam denounces those who have done that, regardless of their...
Date of source: Sunday, September 26, 2004
Dr. Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq, the Minister of Awqaf [Religious Endowments], stressed that his ministry did not breach the rules of Shari’a or infringe on fundamental aspects of Islamic religion when it adopted a project aiming at unifying the azan of Greater Cairo’s mosques. In a press conference, the...
Date of source: Saturday, September 25, 2004
Muslim fundamentalists in London expressed their concern over the deteriorating heath of Sultan Barakat Semada a [Muslim] fundamentalist detained at the Egyptian Torah prison.
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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.