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Date of source: Sunday, June 5, 2005
During the Saudi Arabian municipal elections, the nation’s first experiment in real democracy, many were worried because Islamic activists dominated their secular rivals.
Date of source: Monday, January 6, 2003
The New Year’s Day celebrations on Saudi satellite television show an overall reconsideration of the Wahhabi ideas. The Saudi royal family has to choose between this reconsideration and adopting the Wahhabi extremist ideas. Such reconsideration may return to Islam its glory.
Date of source: Monday, January 6, 2003
Wahhabism does not apply the true Islam. One of the crimes that Wahhabism committed against Arab thinking is that it brought forth a generation of sheikhs who established a form of backward Islam and flooded Muslims with fatwas they made to suit their ideas.
Date of source: Saturday, May 1, 2004
The kingdom of Saudi Arabia saw many violent events and bombings after the Second Gulf War [1991] and Kuwait’s occupation by Iraqi forces. Terrorist acts started in 1995 with a car explosion killing three Americans. 2003 witnessed a development as a
confrontation started between the Jihadi Stream...
Date of source: Thursday, April 14, 2005
The same old boring
story is repeated over and over again. Despite proven groundless and fabricated, many reiterate the serial of kidnapping
Christian girls in collusion with the State security apparatus.
Date of source: Thursday, April 14, 2005
In
the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attack on the United States, Saudi Arabia was violently attacked in the US mass
media, presuming some relationship between terrorism, Islam and Saudi Arabia.
Date of source: Friday, April 8, 2005
With regard to the Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) between the Egyptian Ministry of Awqāf and its Saudi counterpart: Fighting fundamentalism and
terrorism is indirectly achieved by showing the moderate core of the religion. Cooperation with the Saudis can be based on
the common denominators...
Date of source: Thursday, March 24, 2005
A Saudi surprise
Everybody knows about the strict
law in Saudi Arabia banning women from driving their own cars (no one knows why!). What really came as a surprise was a news
item reported by many agencies about a Saudi girl, Marwa Mahmoud, who won a women’s car race held in Dubai.
Date of source: Saturday, March 12, 2005
The Theological College of the Jesuit University and the College of Sharī‘a in Lebanon are determined to make the dream of a successful dialogue come true. The Jesuit University’s Higher Institute of Islamo-Christian Studies is considered a step in that direction, though it has not yet realized its...
Date of source: Sunday, March 13, 2005
The 1994 fatwa declared the Azhar to be exclusively the sole body/party responsible for issuing opinions Islamic matters. These matters pertain to accepting or rejecting audio or audiovisual items. This fatwa has given the Azhar the legal right to monitor and supervise the intellectuals and...
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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.