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Date of source: Friday, February 6, 2004
The article presents the
views of a number of Muslim intellectuals such as Dr. Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq, Egyptian Minister of
Awqaf [Endowments], Muhammad Ben Ya’eesh, president of the Islamic-European Chamber of Commerce,
and Ga’far Abdel Salam, the secretary general of the league of Islamic...
Date of source: Monday, February 9, 2004
The article is about attacks against Egypt in the US encouraged by Coptic immigrants. The author
argues that these attacks always intensifies in the periods that precedes President Mubarak
official visits to the US.
Date of source: Monday, February 9, 2004
The article is a criticism of Coptic activists in the US, particularly Michael Mounir, the
head of the US Copts Association.
The author explains that Mounir always takes advantage of
some incidents that take place in Egypt, which most times are false, in order to call on the U.S.
to interfere in...
Date of source: Friday, February 13, 2004
Some political experts are of the opinion
that the revisions of the Gama’a did not change on key issues such as the application of Shari’a,
[the status of] Coptic Christians, multiple-party system and the freedom of opinion and belief.
Those experts claim that the revisions of the group were...
Date of source: Sunday, February 15, 2004
The
author explains that the way Egyptian society dealt with the al-Kosheh events illustrated that
society has a haphazard way of dealing with sectarian tensions.
They deal with the
marginal problems and the surfaces of a crisis, in search of a temporary solution to calm the
situation. This...
Date of source: Monday, February 16, 2004
The article is a commentary on a question published in Sout Al-Azhar newspaper about the Islamic judgment on the person who pays money [to a public servant] in return for a personal service or interest like [obtaining] employment. Dr. Mosbah Hamad, deputy director of the Faculty of Shari’a and Law...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 17, 2004
The author explains the misunderstanding of the concept of “secularism." in Islamic and Arab
societies; secularism is presented as a call for atheism and apostasy. Based on this
misunderstanding, some launched an attack on France because the country has banned religious
symbols in public schools...
Date of source: Friday, February 13, 2004
More than one French magazine
confirmed that Tareq Ramadan, the grandson of the founder of the banned group of the Muslim
Brotherhood, is the target of many Western and Arab intelligence agencies as [allegedly] the
secret leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe. But Ramadan denied all the...
Date of source: Thursday, February 12, 2004
The Italian Cardinal
Roberto Tucci, the honorable chief of the Vatican Radio, has claimed Islam does not show
appropriate respect for non-Muslims. Tucci has also severely attacked the martyrdom operations.
Islamic scholars and intellectuals condemn that a religious scholar could voice such...
Date of source: Monday, February 16, 2004
Mamdouh Ismail criticizes the opinions of Prince Al-Walid Ibn Talal [the owner
of the music satellite channel Rotana] on the issue of the veil in France and of martyrdom
operations. The prince voiced his opinion in an interview with the French paper Le Figaro.
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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.