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Date of source: Saturday, December 6, 2003 to Friday, December 12, 2003
A Christian young woman sent a letter to the magazine commenting on an article titled “The grounds of the veil and its battles,” published in the magazine’s latest issue. She objects to a sentence in the article reads: “the Christian veil symbolizes the authority of men over the women.” She says...
Date of source: Saturday, December 6, 2003 to Friday, December 12, 2003
The article is a letter to Rose Al-Youssef by a retired pilot. He comments on a program aired by Iqraa TV channel. The program interviewed a sheikh commenting on the issue of hijab. The sheikh stated that a woman told him once that she does not like to wear hijab. He answered her she does not need...
Date of source: Monday, December 8, 2003
The Mufti of Egypt issued a fatwa to the effect that wives are entitled to be paid for breast-feeding their children and serving their husbands. The author believes it is not acceptable that Muslim scholars neglect essential and important issues and focus on issues of secondary importance that do...
Date of source: Friday, December 5, 2003
The author wonders why not criticize the Christian or the Jewish religious discourse as Islamic religious discourse is criticized. Picking verses from the Torah, he argued that the Jewish religious discourse supports the concept of ethnic cleansing and looks down upon women. He referred to the...
Date of source: Monday, December 1, 2003
The article comments on the idea that Islamic scholars refuse a female Muslim to hold positions of president and Muslim Caliph. They resort to a hadith narrated by Abu Bakrah that when the Prophet Muhammad was informed that people of Persia were ruled by Kisra´s daughter. He replied that no...
Date of source: Saturday, November 29, 2003 to Friday, December 5, 2003
There is no fashion that produces the amount of controversy, violence and hysteria world-wide that the wearing of the veil by Muslim women does. Iranian women flee overseas in order to take the chador off. In Turkey, the veiled wives of government and party officials are not allowed to attend...
Date of source: Sunday, November 30, 2003
The decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court to admit the right of Feritcha Luiden, a teacher, to take a scarf while doing her work and its statement that the German authorities were wrong when they ordered her suspension produced a wide-ranging debate and deep splits within German...
Date of source: Saturday, November 29, 2003 to Friday, December 5, 2003
A veiled TV broadcaster claimed that the head of Egyptian TV insulted and hit her because she wears the veil. The head of TV denied such claims and said that the broadcaster stirs up her veiled colleagues and harasses the rest. The head of Radio and Television Union made it clear that a broadcaster...
Date of source: Thursday, November 27, 2003
Khadeja Qenna, the Algerian broadcaster of the news bulletin and political programs on Al-Jazeera TV station, stressed that her decision to take the veil is a personal one and does not reflect an approach of her TV station. She mentioned that she received telephone calls from Sheikhs Amr Khaled,...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 2, 2003
According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, if the number of Europeans converting to Islam continues to increase, Europe will be an Islamic continent soon. The paper claims that international intelligence agencies reported on the spread of Islam in Europe, stressing their plan to prevent its spread,...
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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.