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Date of source: Monday, June 28, 2004
The veil is a dress code that is deemed acceptable in appearance and content- whether it was essentially based on religious reasons or not. Every person- man or woman- is free to dress as he pleases and follow whatever fashion he likes. So the question remains: why do we freak out and tend to...
Date of source: Sunday, July 11, 2004
Islam is defeated in its own lands or in countries that were previously called Dar Al-Islam [Land of Islam]. Dar Al-Islam was once in conflict with Dar Al-Kufr [Land of Unbelief]. This situation changed and Dar Al-Kufr offered Muslims freedom and humane treatment. This is a very obvious reality;...
Date of source: Monday, July 12, 2004
The Rand Organization, an international American think tank, is known for its close relationship with the US Defense Department, and most of its research, which tackles strategic and security affairs, is carried out through contacts with the Pentagon. On March 18, Rand released an important report...
Date of source: Monday, September 13, 2004
Ten years after the publishing of Al-Banna’s book Mas’ouleyit fashal al-dawla al-Islamiya fil
asr Al-hadith [The responsibility of the failure of the Islamic State in the modern era], the
Azhar recommended the banning of the book because of the unorthodox ideas included in the book. A
heated...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Many literal works that were recommended to be
banned by the Islamic Research Institute, like “Waleemat A’shab Al-Bahr” [Banquet of seaweeds] by
Haidar Haidar, and most recently Nawal Al-Sa’adawi’s “Soqout Al-Imam [the Fall of the Imam], are
humble and modest texts from a literary point-of-view...
Date of source: Monday, June 14, 2004
Under the pretext of commemorating the twelfth anniversary of Farag Foda’s assassination at the hands of members of Islamic groups, members of the Egyptian Association for Enlightenment, headed by Saad Eddin Ibrahim, launched a fierce attack on the July Revolution and attacked religion [Islam] and...
Date of source: Saturday, May 8, 2004
The initiative of the Brotherhood reveals a deficiency in the way the Brotherhood understands democracy. There is a more obvious deficiency in the way it understands scientific knowledge which we should seek its means under the fundamentals of this true religion [according to the Brotherhood’s...
Date of source: Sunday, May 30, 2004
Some Islamic movements were able to incorporate the political language that is prevalent in the world. These movements realized that it is no longer possible to ignore big issues like human rights, democracy and women’s participation. Some Islamic movements still believe in the idea of a theocratic...
Date of source: Sunday, May 30, 2004
Islamic movements represent one perspective on how reform could be brought about. Islamic movements do not monopolize Islam, and are only making suggestions. Islamic political parties have the complete right to present their views and its programs, and leave it up to the people and the citizens to...
Date of source: Sunday, November 7, 2004
If the Muslim Brotherhood, or any other Islamic parties, wants to participate in elections, they shall, first of all, accept the basic aspects of the free democratic society.
Islamic groups should accept the separation between religion and state policies, and consequently amending the constitution...
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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.