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Date of source: Tuesday, November 27, 2001
The November 23 article of Al-Musawwar, "Is the West still Dar Kufr," resulted four days later (November 28) in a campaign by the US Copts Association against the use of the word kuffar for Christians. The association claims that calling someone a ’kafir’ [’kafir’ is the singular of ’kufar’] is a...
Date of source: Friday, November 23, 2001
According to Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi, there are three kinds of kufr [unbelief]. There is atheism [elhad], which is a total denial of the existence of the Almighty God. There is polytheism [shirk], which means believing in more than one god. The third kind is the denial of Islam and the message...
Date of source: Saturday, November 17, 2001 to Friday, November 23, 2001
The book "The New Crusader War" mentioned a fatwa to the effect that if the murderer of the innocent people in America is a Muslim, he has to pay half the diyya [compensation money] to the families of murdered Muslims and nothing more. Usama Bin Laden expressed the same opinion when he was asked...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 14, 2001
One of the strange things about the current American war, which talks of fighting terrorism as one of its main targets, is that it started after the world witnessed a decline in terrorism. When terrorism was active, America was among the countries hosting it. Most of the leaders of the extremist...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 13, 2001
It has become dangerous to tell simple people frankly that the Afghan and Jihad Islamic groups do not understand politics and that they are the reason behind the tragedy of Afghanistan. It has become clear that such groups, intentionally, involve Arabs, Muslims and Islam in an absurd unequal...
Date of source: Monday, November 19, 2001
A closed seminar discussing "Radical Islam" was held in Britain two weeks ago. The relationship between terrorism and radical Islam and whether the latter was growing or declining, and the relationship between Muslims and the West and the effect of the events of September 11 on the Arabic and...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 13, 2001
The author speaks about the absent role of the Islamic religious institution and gives his perception of the role it should play. He believes that the Islamic religious institution is not able to spread an awareness of Islam in the West, which believes Islam to be the new enemy of western...
Date of source: Friday, November 9, 2001
One of the consequences of the attacks of September 11 is that America is now trying to correct its image in the eyes of the Arabic and Islamic world. The American Secretary of State said that America should not give some Arabic radical groups the chance to speak of it as an anti-Muslim country.
Date of source: Thursday, November 8, 2001
The author is of the opinion that Arabs and Muslims should have a media that can be directed at peoples outside their countries. In that way they would be able to express their Arabic and Islamic points of view about many issues, the most important of which are the Arab-Israeli conflict and...
Date of source: Monday, July 23, 2001
Dr. Nasr Hamid Abu Zeid participated in the anti-racism conference Cairo Center for Human Rights held in Egypt. He talked about Islamophobia, Europe’s perception of Islam, globalization and Huntington’s theories about the clash between civilizations.
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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.