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Date of source: Monday, September 29, 2003
Dr. Abdel-Azeem Al-Mata’ani has been behind most of the cases of accusing writers of kufr [unbelief]. The latest writer he accused of disbelief is Ahmed Al-Shahawi because of his book "Commandments on Loving Women." The author believes that because Al-Mata’ani was not paid the attention he always...
Date of source: Thursday, August 21, 2003
The Jordanian Administrative Court supported a prison sentence handed down to Jordanian poet Musa Al-Hawamda by a lower court. Al-Hawamda is charged with defaming Islam in his poetic anthology titled “My Trees are Higher.”
Date of source: Thursday, August 7, 2003
Prominent sources in Ankara declared that there is an American plan to Christianize thousands of Iraqis in the north of Iraq. The sources asserted that the US is trying to control all Iraqi cities and at the same time exert efforts to help the work of Christian missionaries there.
Date of source: Thursday, July 24, 2003
The article is an interview with the director of the Aid and Preaching Center in Saudi Arabia. The director speaks about the activities of the center and how effective they are in preaching Islam. He also explains how the center deals with converts to Islam
Date of source: Monday, July 21, 2003
The author believes that American missionary activities in the Arab-Islamic world are more dangerous than Huntington’s theory concerning the clashes between civilizations. He believes that to avoid problems between the Islamic world and Christianity because of such activities, it is better to adopt...
Date of source: Sunday, July 20, 2003
Time magazine published on June 30, 2003 an article titled “Should Christians convert Muslims? A new flock of missionaries has launched a campaign to take the Gospel to Islamic countries. But will they inspire more backlash than belief?” by David Van Biema. Sawt Al-Umma and Al-Usbua believe this...
Date of source: Saturday, July 26, 2003
An angry article in Rose el-Youssef on claims about kidnapped Coptic girls.
Report on Christian missionary activities in the Islamic world and on how they mostly only create tensions and conflicts between the two.
Date of source: Thursday, June 19, 2003
Basing on the fatwa of Sheikh Dr. Sabry Abdel Ra’ouf, a lawyer filed a request to declare some artists who retired and wore the veil and later took it off as apostate. The author approaches those artists as well as religious scholars to comment on the fatwa.
Date of source: Thursday, June 19, 2003
The article is an interview with Sheikh Dr. Sabry Abdel Ra’ouf over his fatwa which judges women who took off their veil [hijab] as apostates. He states that women who publicly declare that hijab is not an Islamic obligation are apostates.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 3, 2003
The article gives the second part of the text of the legal reasoning behind the ruling of the Administrative Court, which canceled the decision of the Azhar concerning banning a three-part religious book by Said Muhammad Hassan.
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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.