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Date of source: Thursday, March 10, 2005
Although it was the Grand Imam of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, who had recommended the appointment of Shaykh cAlī Jumca as the Muftī of the Republic, their squabbles have not ceased. Shaykh ‘Alī Jum‘a was perceived as violating the unanimous fatwas of the Islamic Research Institute...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 9, 2005
A delegation from the US Embassy in Cairo recently paid a visit to the Upper Egyptian city. First Secretary Ian McCary said in a number of statements to reporters that he supports the recent wave of protests in Egypt. He said that he calls for more freedom for the Copts and church building, noting...
Date of source: Sunday, March 6, 2005
Earlier this month, writer and intellectual Tareq al-Bishri wrote in the Cairo weekly al – Osbou [al-Usbouc] that about a billion dollars find their way into the Coptic Church’s coffers every year. No one, he wrote, even remotely knows how these funds are spent, since the Church behaves as a...
Date of source: Saturday, March 5, 2005
Antagonizing Muslims is much more widespread than antagonizing Islam itself. In fact, the hostility towards Muslims reflects a racist attitude towards non-European races, including Muslim as well as non-Muslim communities such as Albans, Palestinians and even Caucasians.
Date of source: Monday, March 7, 2005
The family of Egyptian fundamentalist Abu Hamza, imprisoned in Britain on charges of inciting to murder, said Hamza’s cry at night is in prayers and Qur’ān recitation, not in regret of things he did that led him to jail, reported British newspaper The Sun.
Date of source: Thursday, March 3, 2005
A British court upheld the right of a Muslim girl student to wear her hijāb [headscarf] inside her school in a case that sparked a public uproar reminiscent of the one in France about the hijāb in government schools.
Date of source: Thursday, March 3, 2005
Five members of the European Parliament have launched a signature-collecting campaign to forward a written petition demanding European countries to respect individual freedom to wear what one wants; Muslim hijāb, Sikh turban, Christian crucifix or Jewish yarmulke in schools or government...
Date of source: Monday, March 7, 2005
The Qur’an says about the kitābis [People of the Book] that “They are not all alike” [The Meaning of The Holy Qur’ān by Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall,3:113 ].
I just remembered this Qur’ānic fairness when I read about two court rulings and a political position that recently took the attention of...
Date of source: Saturday, March 5, 2005
Sometimes I am carried away by the supposed idea that the Islamists’ scenario succeeds and that Usāma Bin Lāden, or others, are able to get the West, particularly the US, leave the lands of Muslims and ending the rule of the incumbent heads of states. In the eyes of Bin Lāden and his likes, they [...
Date of source: Friday, March 4, 2005
In the hectic conflict launched by the West some 1500 years ago, matters went so far that the Cardinals are now viewing Islam today as something that proliferates in the very intestines of the Western communities themselves. They hold that Islam is secularism-resistant and cannot melt in the pot of...
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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.