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Date of source: Saturday, November 10, 2001
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) issued a report titled "Egypt’s Al-Azhar Clerics: We declare war on America," The title implies that many if not most Azhar scholars declared war on America. Dr. Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi stressed that this was certainly not true. He said that the report...
Date of source: Monday, October 29, 2001
The fatwa concerning the legal position of Muslim-American military men with regard to participating in the American attacks on Afghanistan was issued before the start of the attacks. However, because it reached American-Muslim military men after the war had started it was wrongly understood to...
Date of source: Thursday, October 11, 2001
Al-Ahrām Center for Political and Strategic Studies held a seminar about the effects of the recent terrorist attacks in America on national unity in Egypt. Both the [Grand] Shaykh of the Azhar and Pope Shnūdāh stressed that there was no fear about Egyptians’ national unity, which is unique in its...
Date of source: Friday, October 5, 2001
The author commented on an article that was published in one of the Egyptian national papers under the title "We are all with America but..." when reading the article, he discovered that the "but" in the article means that the Arabs would join the America coalition only if America declared Israel...
Date of source: Monday, October 8, 2001
The guide of the American-Muslim military men asked about their legal stand with regard to participating in the American attacks against Afghanistan, especially as the party which they are supposed to fight against is Muslim. Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi, Counselor Tareq Al-Bishri and Dr. Sileem Al-...
Date of source: Monday, October 1, 2001
The article gives information about the geography and demography of Afghanistan and its economic indicators. This is in addition to a historical background that has to do with the Soviet occupation, the civil war and the Taliban government.
Date of source: Saturday, September 22, 2001
Drs. Cornelis Hulsman was interviewed by Egyptian TV to speak about the role of Western media in reporting on the attack in America. The questions directed at him made it obvious that there is a deep mistrust of Western reporting about the Arab and Islamic world. The interviewer believed that...
Date of source: Sunday, November 23, 2003
The author comments on the issue of the American intervention in changing the educational curricula, especially religious, in Arab countries. The US claims that such curricula is responsible for the hatred Muslims have for the US and that is why it is planning to change it. The plan is now...
Date of source: Monday, April 28, 2003
The author believes that the war on Iraq has nothing to do with religion, despite the religiously colored statements of Both Saddam Hussein and Bush. He believes that the US has launched this war to show off its power in the region of the Middle East, to where the perpetrators of the attacks of...
Date of source: Thursday, April 3, 2003
The author comments on the effect of the war in Iraq on Muslims in France. He believes that the French anti-war attitude has reconciled their religious and national identities.
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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.