Date of source: Friday, March 21, 2003
The author argues that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict cannot be stripped of its Islamic religious dimension. He explains what he means by the Islamic dimension of the conflict and whether it means marginalizing the national Palestinian dimension.
Date of source: Friday, March 14, 2003
Jerusalem has been an Arab city since its foundation. Islam came to make it the holy city for the followers of all revealed religions. The author wonders when and how Jerusalem became the spiritual homeland of Jews. The Torah was not revealed there and kings David and Solomon lived in it for a...
Date of source: Friday, March 7, 2003
Those who deny the Islamic identity of Jerusalem and want to secularize the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and strip it of its Islamic nature seek to limit the conflict to a Palestinian national issue, making Jerusalem just a Palestinian piece of land.
Date of source: Sunday, March 9, 2003
The opinions of different sheikhs and Muslim scholars concerning whether the participation of Arabs in the Knesset is permitted according to the Shari´a or not.
Date of source: Thursday, March 6, 2003
Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi comments on different issues: The US war against Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, cloning and gender issues.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 28, 2003
The author comments on the relations between Muslims and Christians in Jerusalem and on the city itself as a symbol of their national unity.
Date of source: Saturday, February 22, 2003
Ahmed Ra´fat Bahgat emphasizes in his book "Arab character in world cinema" that after international Zionism spread its control over film-making in the US, it started to propagate Zionist claims about the persecution of Jews and their right in Palestine.
Date of source: Friday, February 14, 2003
The Sheikh of the Azhar stresses that launching a war against Iraq will have side effects on all neighboring countries. Pope Shenouda says that the world fears the consequences of an attack on Iraq and that a peaceful solution is best.
Date of source: Saturday, January 18, 2003 to Friday, January 24, 2003
The policy of boycotting Western products led to a commercial use of Islam. Iran could be considered the first country to professionally pursue what is called the “Islamization” of Western products.
Date of source: Monday, September 19, 2005
A recent fatwa issued by the Grand Imām of the Azhar, Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, on the normalization of relations with Israel, has triggered heated debate among Muslim scholars.