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Date of source: Wednesday, February 9, 2000
After the World War II, world relationships, cultures and religions became interpenetrated. This was due to mass media, conferences and international political, economic and cultural relationships. This interpenetration is unprecedented throughout all history. But the West looks at religion...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 8, 2000
The debate around the problems of Copts in Egypt is one of the most important issues that is raised every now and then. Accordingly, I have preferred to write about the situation of Copts in Egypt by defining certain points that are the core of these problems. Dealing with these points will help...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 2, 2000
Foreigners have always tried to intervene in the affairs of Copts, but Copts were the first to refuse this interference. Since the era of Isma’il, we find that the ruler and the government dealt with all Egyptians alike. Copts entered the Shura Council then elected. Egypt became united, citizenship...
Date of source: Friday, January 21, 2000
The statement issued by 31 scholars of the Azhar Scholars Front rejecting the Personal Status Law raised many questions about the identity of these scholars and to what extent they belong to the Azhar, especially since Sheikh Al-Azhar, Dr. Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi, and The Islamic Research Council...
Date of source: Thursday, January 13, 2000
The author argues that it is in the interest of the Israeli secret service to saw discord between peoples of different denominations in the countries surrounding Israel. Examples are given from Egypt and Lebanon.
Date of source: Saturday, January 15, 2000 to Friday, January 21, 2000
Opinion article about the consequences of the killings in al-Kosheh. The author writes about national unity and is of the opinion that those who call for the setting up of political parties on religious basis should shut up once and for all.
Date of source: Monday, January 17, 2000
Anyone who reads the declarations of emigrant Copts and the declarations of the centers adjoined to them thinks that Egypt is an apartheid society like South Africa in the past. Some might even think that every Muslim in Egypt carries an machine-gun on his shoulder all the time to deal with any...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 18, 2000
They are a new group of sexually disordered new extremists; all the previous extremists had vague explanation’s to their terrible crimes against the country and innocent citizens. They believe that marriage without officially certified contracts is acceptable, and that recording names of children...
Date of source: Monday, January 3, 2000
The article claims that year more than one million Muslims in Africa convert annually to Christianity and that thus no effort should be spared to step up Muslim missionary activities.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 29, 1999
The punishment for Ridda [apostasy] from Islam was not stated clearly in the Holy Qur’an like the punishment for stealing. However, it was mentioned in two not-agreed-by-all Hadiths. The scholars did not consider such Hadiths while giving opinions, to the extent that Dr. Mahmoud Shaltout, the late...
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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.