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Date of source: Tuesday, November 13, 2001
The author speaks about the absent role of the Islamic religious institution and gives his perception of the role it should play. He believes that the Islamic religious institution is not able to spread an awareness of Islam in the West, which believes Islam to be the new enemy of western...
Date of source: Saturday, November 17, 2001 to Friday, November 23, 2001
Some people try to make of the Qur’an a scientific book. This is radicalism because what if the scientific facts they claim being there in the Qur’an are not precious? And if they are precious why Muslim scientists did not discover them before other non-Muslim scientists who know nothing about the...
Date of source: Monday, November 12, 2001
Al-Usbua of November 5 claimed Dr. Tareq Mitri and father Khalid Akasheh rejected describing Islam as a heavenly religion in the final session of a Muslim-Christian conference. Dr. Mitri wrote the RNSAW and denied he said this. Dr. Muhammad Selim Al-Awa supports Dr. Mitri and praises him for his...
Date of source: Saturday, November 10, 2001 to Friday, November 16, 2001
Dr. Rifa’at Al-Said, the general secretary of the Tagammu opposition party, believes that Islamizing politics is the essence of terrorism and that the Muslim Brotherhood were the first to use terrorism. He stresses that that Islam is not a fertile ground for radical thoughts as some people claim.
Date of source: Thursday, November 8, 2001
The Imam of the Islamic Center in Los Angeles said that the hatred campaign against Muslims and Arabs would continue for a while because the media mobilized Americans’ feelings against Arabs and Muslims. Still, this hatred campaign was met with a sympathy campaign on the part of the churches in...
Date of source: Saturday, September 8, 2001 to Friday, September 14, 2001
"The Other Christ" is a book by a Jewish writer, who claims that there was a Christ before Jesus Christ. The deputy Catholic Patriarch said that the book mixed religious truths with cock and bull stories to cause religious strife. A professor at the Azhar University said that the Jews...
Date of source: Thursday, September 6, 2001
The Grand Imam conveyed his congratulations to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of his taking up office. He assured him that the Azhar was paying great attention to inter-religious dialogue which is part of the doctrine of the Qur’an.
Date of source: Sunday, September 9, 2001
It was said that Sheikh Amr Khalid used the scientific method and a free mature way of thinking in explaining the Qur’an and Sunna. However the author provides many examples of how Khalid imitates the ways used by preachers for many centuries. He proves that he is very far from using the scientific...
Date of source: Monday, August 13, 2001
Dr. Abdel Sabour Shahin explained that he agreed with Sheikh Al-Qaradawi’s fatwa that allows non-Muslim women who have converted to Islam to stay with their still non-Muslim husbands. He said that fatwas that make people afraid of converting to Islam should not be issued and that converting to...
Date of source: Friday, August 10, 2001
Scholars in Egypt are divided between rejecting and supporting the fatwa issued by the European Council for Fatwa and Research. The fatwa allows non-Muslim women who converted to Islam to stay with their still non-Muslim husbands. The Islamic Research Institute and the Egyptian Fatwa House...
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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.