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Date of source: Tuesday, June 14, 2005
It is true that Judaism does accept converts. However, Judaism does not seek converts. Indeed, traditional Judaism discourages those who want to convert to Judaism. This is a fundamental difference between the view of Christianity toward non-Christians and Judaism toward non-Jews.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Baptist pastor Dr. Jeff Adams agrees with Dr. Larry Levine, an Orthodox Jew, that some statements of evangelical Christian leaders supporting Israel are reasons for concern. But Dr. Adams asks to avoid putting all Christian evangelicals and/or fundamentalists in the same box, especially in the...
Date of source: Friday, June 10, 2005
The Italian Minister of Justice, Roberto Castelli, has declared that the law does not allow for anybody to cover his/her face in public. He referred in his speech to women who wear clothes covering their heads and faces, namely the niqāb.
Date of source: Sunday, June 12, 2005
In his excellent book, ‘Understanding Jihad’, David Cook of Rice University in the USA dismisses the low-grade debate that has raged since 9/11 over the nature of jihād - whether it is a form of offensive warfare or (more pleasantly) a type of moral self-improvement
Date of source: Saturday, June 11, 2005
Dr. Maurice Bucaille, a French professor of surgery, was among the leading defenders of Islam in the West. He is the author of the book The Bible, the Qur’an and Science, which is well-known in the West after it has been translated into several languages.
Date of source: Thursday, June 2, 2005
The followers of Max Michael Hannā have been increasing as his church in al-Muqattam, Saint Athanasius, allows 100,000 divorced Copts another chance after the Orthodox Church downsized the 10 reasons of divorce to fornication.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 1, 2005
It was an astonishing and embarrassing episode to see the absence of the Arab World from the battle for an academic boycott of Israeli universities. Only Palestinian academics pursued the efforts to continue the British academic boycott against Israeli academia.
Date of source: Friday, June 3, 2005
The veil has taken a huge space in the German elections. This happened as the German Christian Democratic Party vowed to ban the veil from schools in case it would win the elections.
Date of source: Thursday, June 9, 2005
Although I am not in favor of the cultural explanation of the phenomenon of terrorism, the fake religious cloak this group is acting under spurs me to say that this destructive indiscriminate violence would not have spread if it there had not been a cultural background that churned out fanaticism...
Date of source: Sunday, June 5, 2005
It is quiet natural that the desecration of a Holy Book, a Qur’ān or a Bible, ignites rage. It can be ascribed to the human nature that is very susceptible to symbolism and metaphor.
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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.