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Date of source: Sunday, May 21, 2006
Discrimination against other religious sects and strange fatwas and religious teachings are the main grounds for the Alexandria attacks and other incidents of sectarian sedition. The writer suggests certain actions be taken to diminish this stream of hostility and discrimination that is taking over...
Date of source: Saturday, May 20, 2006 to Friday, May 26, 2006
Some Egyptians have filed lawsuits against the grand imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyīd Tantāwī calling for his dismissal for his "unacceptable" opinions about the hijāb in France and his position regarding the Danish cartoons against the Prophet Muhammad.
Date of source: Monday, May 22, 2006
The article investigates the connections and ties between young Muslim
dā‘īya ‘Amr Khālid and a Jewish American journalist called
Samantha M. Shapiro, who is known for her pro-Israel stance and fanaticism against the Palestinians,
according to
the author.
Date of source: Monday, May 22, 2006
In Eastern
Sudan, a Muslim girl has married a Christian boy, based
on a fatwa given by Shaykh al-
Turābī, general secretary of the Sudanese National
Conference Party.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 17, 2006
A fatwa that prohibits Muslims from
celebrating Shamm al-
Nasīm [Spring Festival] has been recently announced.
Date of source: Monday, May 15, 2006
The
court ruling previously pronounced by a lower administrative court giving Bahā’īs the rights to
state their religion in official documents is overturned by the Supreme Administrative Court.
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
The
author presents a meeting between Ahmad ‘Abd al-
Mu‘ti Hijāzī a famous Egyptian
poet and the muftī in which Hijāzī
talked about the relationship between scholars,
extremism and terrorism. The muftī boasted that
all those who proved to be extremists or terrorists
were not graduates of...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 10, 2006
The author investigates the rampant ultra- religious current and the niqāb phenomenon inside the Fine Arts College in Egypt, starting his 11- page news feature with a photo depicting several female students wearing the niqāb inside the college with a caption reading "this is a photo of...
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2006
The author argues that political and cultural imbalances are behind the problems Egypt is facing, criticizing the language of dialogue between deputies in parliament and the failure to agree, from a national perspective, on a decision to end the state of emergency, in effect since 1981.
Date of source: Thursday, May 4, 2006
The Egyptian government is appealing a court
ruling in favor of
recognizing the Bahā’ī faith. Islamic clerics deem confessors of this religion
apostates.
Suspicious over Bahā’īs being agents of Zionist interests in Egypt are raised.
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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.