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Date of source: Sunday, October 8, 2006
The Muftī of
Egypt, ‘Alī Jum‘ah,
rejects charges levelled against official religious figures that
they only serve the government’s point of
view and justifies his fatwá which does not advise wearing the
niqāb.
Date of source: Sunday, October 8, 2006
The Muftī speaks in this interview
about the death penalty, which, he said, should
still be in effect to guarantee that the society will not be
overwhelmed with vice. He criticizes countries that
have legalized prostitution, narcotics and abortion.
Date of source: Sunday, September 24, 2006
The author calls upon religious leaders not to instigate fanaticism while at the same pleading for a better understanding of the West and being true to one’s own belief.
Date of source: Saturday, September 23, 2006
This article discusses violence in Islam from the Caliph ‘Uthmān Ibn
‘Ufān to
the Muslim Brotherhood. Religion and holy texts have been taken as pretexts to commit
murder in the name of
God and Islam.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Egyptian Shaykh al-Qaradāwī
pronounced
a fatwá that enables Moroccans to use bank interest to obtain accommodation. The
fatwá
aroused the anger of Moroccan Muslim intellectuals who considered it interference in
Morocco’s interior affairs.
Date of source: Saturday, September 23, 2006
Many
political and military leaders employ God and
religion to realize their own political and murderous aims.
The following text deals with historical examples from
the past till present time.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Angry reactions to Pope
Benedict’s remarks on Islam and the Prophet
Muhammad continued for a second week. Some Muslim figures,
including Iranian President Ahmadinejad and
Malaysian Prime Minister ‘Abd Allāh Ahmad
Badawī, have accepted the pope’s regret at the
furious reactions to his remarks...
Date of source: Monday, December 22, 1997
Subtitle: 1- The leader of the organization says, "When Dr. Yehia Ismael said that Hanafy was an apostate, we decided to kill him" 2- The one who was supposed to carry out the operation says, "The plan was to kill him with penknives. I have trained on how to do this in Nozha" 3- An official...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 24, 1997
Subtitle:
1- An Islamic preacher says on the Internet: Christians deceive Muslims by building churches in the form of mosques
2- A Christian Internet site called “Wild Christianity” specializes in attacking Islam
3- Internet sites for the books and essays of: El Karadawy, Said Kotb, Ibn...
Date of source: Friday, September 12, 1997
Sheik Rabiek Hag Ibn Neisan, the general mufti of Kazakhstan, has
confessed that
some Muslims have converted from Islam and become Christians. He said that this has happened because
of
financial temptations and Western aid funds, and not because converts really believe in Christianity, adding...
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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.