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Date of source: Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Today, many unqualified sheikhs are issuing fatwas [Muslim religious opinions or decrees given by a Mufti or another Muslim scholar. Based on Islamic Law and logical measurement] for purely personal purposes. They sometimes even issue contradictory fatwas that really reflect their deep ignorance.
Date of source: Sunday, October 24, 2004
Ramadan is again upon us: The Islamic holy month of fasting begins on Friday, October 15. We should all hope that U.S. forces in Iraq don’t make the same mistake with regard to it this year that they did last.
Date of source: Saturday, September 25, 2004
The rules of war in Islam involves all kinds of violations if they were evaluated by the ethics of today. These rules allowed the killing of hostages, taking possession of money and properties by force and abducting women, taking them as slaves and raping them. All these things were lawful under...
Date of source: Saturday, October 2, 2004
Outside Iraq many Muslim scholars and members of the Muslim Brotherhood expressed their wholehearted support of what they called ‘the Iraqi resistance’ through satellite TVs in the Gulf countries and the heavily circulated Islamized newspapers. They wrote about their viewpoints that go in line with...
Date of source: Sunday, October 3, 2004
Arab Christians are trapped between the hammer of terrorists groups and extremists, and the anvil of fanatic governments that skillfully manipulate the issue of religious radicalism for their own benefit [Editor: what governments does Magdi Khalil refer to?], while reinforcing religious, ethnic and...
Date of source: Monday, September 13, 2004
Archbishop Rowan Williams made his first visit to the Diocese of Egypt since he became the Archbishop of Canterbury. The archbishop met with President Mubarak, Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, the Grand imam of the Azhar, Pope Shenouda and laid the foundation stone of Harpur Community Health Centre in...
Date of source: Thursday, September 2, 2004
Some of those who met the US Commission on International Religious Freedom in Egypt, spoke of the necessity of establishing a Coptic Christian political party.
We will find that once the [Orthodox] Copts have their party, the Catholics will have theirs, and the Sunnis, the Shiites and the Muslim...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 4, 2004
Could the Union of Muslim Scholars recently established in Ireland be the solution to the conflict of fatwas in the Islamic world? What are the conditions, under which this union was born, and what does its charter say, and who funds it?
These questions are answered by Dr. Muhammad Selim Al-Awa,...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 21, 2004
In an Alexandrian youth camp, the Egyptian Grand Mufti, Dr. Ali Goma’a, met with nearly 500 students from Egyptian universities and from delegations studying at the Azhar. Dr Goma’a gave his lecture on the mosque’s role in building the individual. Dr. Goma’a also answered questions on various...
Date of source: Monday, July 19, 2004
The recent reactions to the movie "Baheb Al-Sima" [I love cinema] conveyed the existence of a mutual misunderstanding. Consequently, two remarkable aspects should be examined:
1-Christian fundamentalism-extremism:
1-Christian
2-Fanaticism-Sectarianism
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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.