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Date of source: Wednesday, January 22, 2003
Many intellectuals in the Arab and Islamic world are killed in the name of defending Islam. Muslims should stand firmly against such crimes because of their dangerous effects on Islam and on people’s security, freedom of belief and right of ijtihad.
Date of source: Saturday, July 3, 2004
This is not the
first time I go through the harship of takfir [being accused of unbelief]. I read in a newspaper
on June 25 that they received news from the Azhar saying that my book “Shukran Bin Laden” [thank
you Bin Laden] was confiscated and banned from circulation. Are our masters the...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 5, 2004
Dr. Moussa Hawamda, a
Jordanian poet, has become very famous in the last five years after the recent campaign against
his collection of poems My Trees Are Higher issued in fall 1999. Moussa Hawamda who was brought
before the Jordanian court five years ago and then sentenced to six months...
Date of source: Sunday, October 17, 2004
The heated
controversy in Egypt over the statements of the writer Usama Anwar Okasha has been escalated. In
a press article, Okasha attacked the Companion of the Prophet Amr Ibn Al-‘As and made some
accusations against him, which some people considered an insult to Amr Ibn Al-‘As.
- See art. 7...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 2, 2004
Renowned writer Usama Anwar Okasha, in
an interview with an independent weekly newspaper, dwelt on the reasons why he declined to
venture into historical figures in the scripts he wrote for TV series.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 14, 2004
The confessions of those
accused of perpetrating terrorist operations in Saudi Arabia about the ways the sheikhs of
“incitement” convinced them that such terrorist actions would open the doors of paradise to them,
show that they confuse many of the prominent figures who support jihad. The...
Date of source: Friday, January 16, 2004
Al-Wafd
reviews the main points of the all-inclusive revisions presented by theGama’a Al-Islamiya and its
eight historical leaders. Before examining to what extent these revisions have contributed to the
support of democratic development, Al-Wafd is providing an objective presentation of the...
Date of source: Sunday, February 8, 2004
The article
discusses the issue of the punishment for apostasy from Islam. The author explains the opinion of
the Grand Imam of the Azhar, which he expressed while in a visit to Germany.
Dr. Tantawi
explained that a Muslim who commits apostasy is not punished until he sets himself as an enemy...
Date of source: Saturday, February 7, 2004
The article is an interview with the poet Ahmad Abdel Mo’ti Hegazi. He criticizes the campaign of takfir [accusation of being an apostate] that he is suffering at the hands of an Egyptian paper.
Hegazi comments that the problem of accusations of takfir results from the fact that we are not...
Date of source: Monday, March 15, 2004
Has President
Mubarak’s call to renew religious thought been seriously tackled on all levels of the ruling
party and the government-owned media or not? Al-Liwaa’ Al-Islami, owned by the ruling National
Democratic Party, continued its attack on secularists on the pretext that secularists are...
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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.