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Date of source: Monday, November 8, 2004
The assassination of Theo van Gogh resulted in a debate in Dutch media about the limits of the freedom of expression. Van Gogh himself specialized in offensive language against religion; his words were deliberately calculated to hurt people. Others, found van Gogh had gone too far, misused the...
Date of source: Sunday, October 24, 2004
The conduct and rhetoric of Muslim leaders and their failure to address the stagnation of their societies has fueled the tensions between Islam and the West. Relations between Muslims and the West will continue to deteriorate unless the internal crisis of the Muslim world is also addressed.
Date of source: Friday, October 22, 2004
Islamophobia, fear of Islam, is a concept created by the West through historical, political, economic and media factors. Several Islamic countries have fallen into the trap of Islamophobia, which makes fixing the distorted picture of Islam all the more important.
Date of source: Sunday, September 26, 2004
At the opening of the Cultural Season of the Islamic Council at the Nour Mosque in Abbasya, Grand Imam of the Azhar, Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, emphasized that the kidnapping of the six Egyptians in Iraq is a criminal act, and that Islam denounces those who have done that, regardless of their...
Date of source: Monday, October 4, 2004
“All judges will not live for long, while the condemned, Khaled, is eternal.” With these words Abdel Rahman Al-Abnudy [a famous Egyptian poet] said goodbye to Khaled Al-Islambuli, Sadat’s assassin. Khaled Al-Islambuli appeared for the first time on 23 September 1981, when the leader of his unit...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 14, 2004
If anyone would like to see an example of the media of strife, he may take a look at the distorted, fabricated news published by Arabic papers last week. This news is about the statement Dr. Youssef Al-Qaradawi made at the Egyptian Journalists' Syndicate about the resistance against the Americans...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 15, 2004
On September 7, Israeli newspapers published the text of a letter of senior Israeli rabbis directed to the head of the Israeli cabinet, Ariel Sharon. The letter urges Sharon not to hesitate to harm Palestinian civilians in the ongoing confrontations in the occupied territories.
Date of source: Friday, September 17, 2004
ʿAlī Laban, a member of the parliament affiliated with the Brotherhood, submitted an interpellation to the Minister of Culture in which he demanded the closure of the dance school in order to avoid its evils. The Minister of Culture said that that some believe that the school teaches belly dance, "...
Date of source: Thursday, September 16, 2004
No one can offer an explanation for the reasons of this decision except the heads of opposition parties, most of whom deliberately did not attend the meetingin which the exclusion of the Brotherhood was approved.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 2004
These days, Arab newspapers are full of commentaries putting the blame on Muslims for terrorism and others practiced self-flagellation and self-hatred to the extent that they claimed the history of Muslims is a history of oppression, tyranny and baseness. No one asks himself whether what is...
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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.