Date of source: Sunday, December 30, 2001
Sheikh Fawzy Al-Zifzaf said that inter-religious dialogue does not mean obliging the follower of another religion to accept a certain religious belief or to make him agree with a new religion that combines the teachings of all religions. He added that there is no dialogue with the Jews as Jewish...
Date of source: Monday, December 24, 2001
The globalization of ignorance means that a shameful simplification is adopted when speaking about the phenomenon of terrorism. Such simplification is accepted at the expense of a true understanding of the phenomenon of terrorism and also at the expense of the security of the whole world. The...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 18, 2001
Islam agrees with secularism in that it does not acknowledge the theological state and in granting life and man’s activities in life their rights. In Europe where the values of Christianity are opposite to the values of secularism, there has been a kind of controversial interaction between...
Date of source: Friday, December 14, 2001
A seminar on the dialogue between the Islamic and the Western civilizations was held in Greece. In the seminar, Dr. Abdel-Mo’ti Bayoumi stressed that Islam was not guilty of what happened in September 11. Islam rejects terrorism and jihad has nothing to do with terrorism. Islam also is a religion...
Date of source: Saturday, December 8, 2001 to Friday, December 14, 2001
The West has always been accused of distorting Islam’s image. Still, Islam has also been misrepresented by Muslims themselves. By their behavior and fatwas, they gave the West a golden opportunity to prove that Muslims are brutal and uncivilized.
Date of source: Friday, December 14, 2001
The president of the Arab League realized that the problems Arabs and Muslims face in America after the September 11 attacks are not to be solved through policy and diplomacy as the root of these problems is cultural and intellectual. That was why the Arab League called for holding a conference to...
Date of source: Saturday, December 8, 2001 to Friday, December 14, 2001
A conference was held at the Arab League headquarters to discuss the image of the Arabs in the eyes of other civilizations. The conference aimed at finding a formula by which to confront the Western attack against Arabs and Muslims following the 11th September attack.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 4, 2001
The prime minister of Italy criticized Islam by saying that the West was superior to it. If the superiority he spoke about is measured according to the criteria set by Hegel, that is authority, economical growth and technical inventions, then the Western civilization is of course superior. For...
Date of source: Monday, December 10, 2001
The course of events in the ongoing war exposed the falsity of the American claim that it is not a war against Islam but against terrorism. Afghanistan is targeted by America not because of the attacks of September 11 but because it represents a rebellious Islam. However, putting an end to the...
Date of source: Saturday, December 8, 2001 to Friday, December 14, 2001
The Islamic da’wa was badly affected as it has been carried out by people who concentrate on the appearance rather than the core of religion. Islam will not benefit from people who travel to Europe and America wearing short white gallabiyas, sitting on the ground licking their fingers after having...