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Date of source: Wednesday, February 1, 2006
In the drama that followed the republishing of the Danish cartoons across several European nations, the Danish and Norwegian Embassies in Damascus, and also the Danish Consulate in Beirut, were all burnt down. These incidents prompted those foreign ministers to advise their people to leave Syria...
Date of source: Friday, January 27, 2006
Many Azhar scholars have rejected female circumcision and even criminalized it based on the notion that the practice has never been a duty or obligation in Islam and there are no texts in the Qur’ān or sunna [the Prophet Muhammad’s tradition] that encourage it.
Date of source: Thursday, January 26, 2006
The decision of the muftī of the republic, Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘a to allow the controversial Wahabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad, by Natana J. De Long-Bas into Egypt has provoked dispute among members of the Islamic Research Academy, who had previously announced their disapproval of the...
Date of source: Sunday, January 29, 2006
Coptic activist Majdī Khalīl claims discrimination against Copts in Egypt and cites a number of incidents where Copts are openly discriminated against and treated unfairly by authorities.
Date of source: Friday, January 27, 2006
Labīb suggests that Islamic civilization has remained silent about the institutional structure that should shoulder the responsibility of ensuring that power is not abused. It has also never acknowledged political plurality, and there have been zero efforts to get the people to participate in...
Date of source: Sunday, January 29, 2006
Professor of Literature, Dr. Ahmad ‘Abd al-Hayy, criticizes the use of microphones and amplifiers by many mosque imāms during Friday sermons and loud prayers.
Date of source: Thursday, January 26, 2006
Khālid Bura‘ī presents a list of banned books in Egypt.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Maxim Farrakhan [Reviewer: name not verified] of the Christen Democratisch Appأ¨l (CDA) [the Dutch Christian Democratic Political Party] has called for investigating and prosecuting Muslim clerics who incite violence against women.
Date of source: Monday, January 23, 2006
Reviewer: ‘Amr al-Misrī
One person has been killed and around 17 injured in Muslim-Christian clashes in the village of al-‘Udaysāt, Luxor, after Muslims allegedly attacked a church, which had been built without a license. A local priest accused the security forces of being slow to intervene.
Date of source: Friday, January 20, 2006
Former imām of Finsbury Park Mosque, north London, Abu Hamza al-Misrī, has denied in court in the U.K. 16 charges including soliciting murder and stirring up racial hatred, arguing that fomenting hatred is a cardinal sin in Islam.
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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.