Displaying 2101 - 2110 of 2656.
Date of source: Thursday, April 7, 2005
The second
delegation of the Ministry of Awqāf [Endowments] is to visit Germany to explain Islam and its civilization, and to
respond to all the fabrications and misconceptions regarding Islam. The delegation will also respond to accusations made by
the Western media against Islam and Muslims.
Date of source: Friday, April 8, 2005
Grand
Imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, referred a controversial fatwa to the Islamic Research
Institute. This took place after Islamic activist Tāriq Ramadān, (the grandson of Shaykh Hasan al-Bannā, the
founder of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood group), called for the cessation of...
Date of source: Monday, April 4, 2005
Dan Brown’s
The Da Vinci Code has raised a lot of controversy in the whole world over the revolutionary vision it presented of the
history of Christianity and that of Christ. This made a British critic describe the book as ‘fascinating nonsense’ and later
prompted Lebanon’s General Security to...
Date of source: Saturday, April 2, 2005
There is a wide-ranged white slavery [sex traffic] affair that afflicts countries like Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan and Romania, on different levels. Dr. Sema Erder, a Turkish researcher in the social sciences, commented saying that the targeted women in sex slavery are young...
Date of source: Saturday, April 2, 2005
Dr. Murad
Wilfried Hofmann converted to Islam as a result of what he witnessed in the Algerian War of Independence. He authored several
books on Islam, including Journey to Makkah and Islam: The Alternative. Many of his books and essays focus on Islam’s place
in the West and, after September 11...
Date of source: Thursday, March 31, 2005
Berlin’s supreme court
upheld a ruling to have the imam of a mosque in the German capital banished on charges of “inciting violence and undermining
social peace.”
Turkish Muslim leader Yacub Tadshi, 59, has reportedly asked for God’s protection for suicide bombers in
Israel and Iraq during a...
Date of source: Thursday, March 31, 2005
The most prominent Islamic
organization in France signed yesterday, in the presence of the French Minister of the Interior, an agreement to establish an
association for the Islamic activities in France that aims at raising funds to build mosques.
Date of source: Saturday, April 2, 2005
The Union of
Islamic Organizations of France (UOIF) held its 22nd conference, March 25-28, at Le Bourget, under the title ‘For a special
Islam of France,’ a motto held by many French Islamic Organizations to stand the previously established idea ‘Islam in
France.’
Date of source: Monday, April 4, 2005
Tāriq Ramadān, grandson of late Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Bannā, has urged freezing capital
punishment in Islam like stoning and decapitation.
Ramadān also urged the mobilization of Muslims worldwide to ask
their governments to stop applying the hudoud, alleging the application...
Date of source: Thursday, March 31, 2005
Gijs de
Vries, the European Union’s anti-terrorist coordinator, called for dissociating Islam from terrorism, an old phenomenon that
had also been witnessed by both Christianity and Judaism in certain stages of their history.
Pages
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.