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Date of source: Friday, June 13, 2003
The author comments on the issue of Sultana Freeman, an American woman who brought an action against the authorities of Florida State. The authorities refused to issue her a driving license that has a photo of her wearing the niqab [veil that covers hair and face]. She comments on the issue in...
Date of source: Friday, May 30, 2003
Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz reported that the French government plans to issue restrictive procedures preventing Muslim students from wearing veils [hijab] at schools and universities. At the same time it allows Jews to wear their Jewish headgear.
Date of source: Friday, May 30, 2003
Despite the persistency of the French Minister of Interior to issue a law that requires women to remove their veil [hijab] for passport photos, the French first lady intervened personally to exclude nuns from this law.
Date of source: Saturday, May 24, 2003
The article recounts the story of a student in a French language school in Alexandria, who was expelled because of wearing the hejab. Her father brought a suit against the school and the court ruled that she should attend her classes with the hejab.
Date of source: Friday, May 9, 2003
The article discusses the conditions of the Muslim community and France, its relations with the secular French society and its political influence.
Date of source: Sunday, May 11, 2003
The issue of the hejab [veil] has surfaced once more in France. The French prime minister tried to explain the attitude of French schools towards the hejab. He says that students are not treated on religious bases but simply as students of the French Republic. That is why no group should be...
Date of source: Saturday, May 3, 2003
The article concentrates on criticizing “Iqra” channel. The writer is mainly concerned about two programs: “Mowagahat”[Confrontations] and Amr Khaled’s program, “Ghadan Nalqa Al-Ahiba” [Tomorrow We Will Meet the Beloved Ones].
Date of source: Saturday, May 3, 2003
The writer criticizes and analyzes the programs of an Islamic channel, “Iqra”. He considers that it has a bad influence upon people. He supports his idea through using many and various examples [He builds his argument depending on his own point of view without taking the opinion of its audience in...
Date of source: Monday, April 21, 2003
Unknown men have attacked many unveiled women by throwing sulfuric acid on either their faces, chests or legs, as a punishment for not wearing the veil. Such incidents coincide with another phenomenon; in the women-only carriages of the underground, women wearing niqab preach the necessity of...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 11, 2003
One of the main objectives of Islamists is to apply the laws of the Islamic Shari´a. However, they never associate this objective with developing Muslims. The Shari´a and jihad are means not aims in themselves and any group of laws cannot alone change the society. Muslims are in a problem...
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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.