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Date of source: Saturday, August 10, 2002
Rose El-Youssef’s special series on extremism sheds light upon the extremist Al-Tahrir Party [Liberation party] that plans to establish Islamic rule, the book of “Al-Sufur Wa Al-Hijab [Unveiling and Veiling]” and so-called Islamic medicine. It also interviews the Sheikh of the Azhar on Islamic...
Date of source: Monday, July 29, 2002
The author comments on a question asked by an audience member of a program on Shari’a and fatwa on whether using razors is halal or haram. He also comments on the fact that a Saudi fireman prevented his fellow firemen from entering a preparatory school for girls to save the girls from fire because...
Date of source: Friday, April 12, 2002
A member of Parliament of the Muslim Brotherhood said that Egypt should prevent the trade of wine because Egypt is an Islamic country. However, Dr. Zeinab Radwan and Dr. Abdel-Mo’ti Bayoumi believe that there is nothing wrong about non-Muslims drinking wine in Egypt. Dr. Georget Sobhi [a Christian...
Date of source: Saturday, March 16, 2002
The latest fatwa of Sheikh Atiya Saqr that forbids shaking hands between men and women is a return to the dogmatic opinions that preceded the explosion of terrorism in Egypt. The author wondered how could Egypt fight terrorism without fighting such strange beliefs that create the atmosphere for the...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 13, 2002
Sheikh Atiya Saqr stressed that he would not withdraw his statement about prohibiting shaking hands between men and women, as this is stated in a true hadith. He said that he would not take the trouble and respond to those who criticized his fatwa, as some of them deny the sunna. He added that if...
Date of source: Saturday, December 7, 2002
The author explains the rule “intentionally denying one of the fundamentals of religion” because of which a Muslim can be considered an apostate. He believes it is a terrorist rule that is used and applied by terrorists.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 9, 2002
The tragedy of Muslim societies is that religion is not separated from life, in a way that serves human progress nor is it part of life, in a way that makes of religion an intellectual and enlightened energy against whatever suppresses man, whether political or economic or religious authorities.
Date of source: Friday, September 5, 2003
The Grand Imam did not find a way-out of the plight of the fatwa given by Sheikh Al-Eish, except declaring, in an official statement, that the fatwa of Al-Eish does not represent the Azhar. He even referred Al-Eish to investigations. He said that politicians are more entitled to give fatwas when...
Date of source: Saturday, May 7, 2005
Even the poliomyelitis serum was not safe from those blizzards of blind fatwas, which this time did not come from the Gulf countries or fanatics at home, but rather from Muslim leaders in some African countries, who decreed this vaccine as harām [religiously impermissible] on the pretext that “it...
Date of source: Saturday, February 1, 2003
Comments on the fatwa of the head of the Azhar Fatwa Committee saying that any person who holds American citizenship, or citizenship of any country that fights any Muslim people, is an apostate
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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.