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Date of source: Monday, September 20, 2004
The German Minister of Interior, Mr. Otto Schily, defended the racist separation wall being constructed by the extremist right-wing government of Ariel Sharon. Mr. Schily's profile is replete with unfriendly, subjective and unconstructive attitudes and statements against Arabs and Muslims.
Date of source: Monday, September 20, 2004
We were optimistic while following up inter-religious dialogues among religious leaders of the three major religions: Islam, Christianity and Judaism. All these initiatives ultimately helped in building trust between the Islamic World and the West. But, the Bush administration turned the situation...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Dr. Zeinab Abdel Aziz, professor of civilization at the faculty of Arts [university not mentioned], authored a six-part series that was published by the Arabic Book House on the [third] anniversary of the tragedy of September 11. In this article we will review the third part of Dr. Zeinab's series...
Date of source: Monday, September 20, 2004
In his book titled "The Da Vinci Code", Dan Brown claims that Christ married Mary Magdalena and had children from her. In spite of the myths and false claims included in the book, it is heavily circulated in many places around the world. Brown also claims that the grandchildren of Christ and Mary...
Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 2004
Since 1971, religious problems have started to emerge on the Egyptian scene tangibly, albeit not in a very serious manner. Muslims and Christians clashed in the city of Al-Khanka. Following Al-Khanka incident, a committee affiliated with the People's Assembly visited the incident site and offered a...
Date of source: Saturday, September 18, 2004
Muslim extremist sheikhs, the Muslim Brotherhood and terrorist groups agree that a secularist is an unbeliever because he determines the type of relation he has with others according to the principle of citizenship. According to them, taking non-Muslims as friends is an act of unbelief even if...
Date of source: Thursday, September 16, 2004
Ali Laban, a member of the parliament belonging to the Brotherhood parliamentary bloc, submitted a question to the Prime Minister and the Ministers of Education and Interior in which he wondered about the government's attitude towards the declaration given by Dr. Farouq Al-Hetami, vice-chairman of...
Date of source: Saturday, September 18, 2004
Hisba [Refers to the right of a Muslim to defend public morality. Suing on behalf of religion] Takfir lawsuits [i.e. lawsuits in which the complainant accuse other of unbelief] spread on a wide-scale in Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan and Lebanon. The most famous lawsuits among these were filed against Dr....
Date of source: Friday, September 17, 2004
Shura in the Islamic political thought is the philosophy of political systems, community life and the family. Shura means managing the community life of humans, whether in the general or the personal sense.
Date of source: Saturday, September 18, 2004
Dr. Soad Saleh, the head of the department of compared jurisprudence at the Azhar University, proposed her idea of creating a committee for women's fatwas to be affiliated with the Dar Al-Iftaa [House of fatwa-giving] to the current Grand Mufti Dr. Clearly enough, Dr. Soad has been totally...
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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.