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Date of source: Sunday, June 6, 2004
As an Iranian now living in a liberal democracy, I would like to explain why Islam and democracy are essentially incompatible. Democracy is based on one fundamental principle: equality. The idea of equality is unacceptable to Islam. For the non-believer cannot be the equal of the believer. Even...
Date of source: Saturday, April 23, 2005
The generator of ugliness, hatred and cruelty, just like power generators, explodes under pressure, which is exactly the case of poor Muslims, who carry a heavy load of pressures from the clerics in our country.
Date of source: Friday, April 8, 2005
Grand
Imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, referred a controversial fatwa to the Islamic Research
Institute. This took place after Islamic activist Tāriq Ramadān, (the grandson of Shaykh Hasan al-Bannā, the
founder of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood group), called for the cessation of...
Date of source: Sunday, March 27, 2005
After months of turning the other
cheek, Vatican officials are lashing out against "The Da Vinci Code," saying Christians should not buy or even read the best
-selling thriller. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone said that Dan Brown’s novel was a paragon of "anti-Catholic prejudice," and was
filled with "...
Date of source: Saturday, March 26, 2005
Muhammad Ra’fat
‘Uthmān, the rapporteur of the fiqh [Islamic jurisprudence] Research Committee at the Islamic Research Academy, issued a
fatwa rendering halāl [permissible] the use of genetic engineering technologies to determine the sex of the fetus.
Date of source: Saturday, March 19, 2005
Fatwa stars lock horns on satellite stations
Cyber fatwas have become an enchanting theme as to know what is right and what is wrong.
Date of source: Sunday, March 13, 2005
Archpriest Zakarīyā Butrus is in a kind of alliance with the shaykhs and leaders of the extremist camp, whose fatwas have been causing a commotion for more than three decades.
Date of source: Thursday, March 10, 2005
Although it was the Grand Imam of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, who had recommended the appointment of Shaykh cAlī Jumca as the Muftī of the Republic, their squabbles have not ceased. Shaykh ‘Alī Jum‘a was perceived as violating the unanimous fatwas of the Islamic Research Institute...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 9, 2005
Religious fatwas are being aired everywhere on both local and satellite channels to the extent that the Muftī of the Republic Shaykh ‘Alī Jum‘a termed the whole thing as “an unhealthy phenomenon” that is threatening the very well-being of the society.
Date of source: Sunday, March 13, 2005
The 1994 fatwa declared the Azhar to be exclusively the sole body/party responsible for issuing opinions Islamic matters. These matters pertain to accepting or rejecting audio or audiovisual items. This fatwa has given the Azhar the legal right to monitor and supervise the intellectuals and...
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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.