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Date of source: Monday, September 6, 2004
I admired the message sent by Dr. Kamal Chatila, the leader of the Nasserist Lebanese Party, to Sheikh Al-Harthy, head of the Authority of Muslim Scholars in Iraq. The message confirms that Muslims disagree with the barbarous acts committed by some Iraqis in the name of Islam or national liberation...
Date of source: Saturday, August 14, 2004
An unprecedented wave of hate crimes is spreading throughout Europe, particularly in France, targeting Arab and Muslim cemeteries. Attackers have destroyed gravestones and defaced them by drawing swastikas and writing message of hatred. Concerned authorities have not found a clear explanation of...
Date of source: Monday, August 16, 2004
The sheikh of the mosque was shocked when he found out that the some of his worshippers were actually FBI agents who used to frequent the mosque until one day, they revealed their identity and arrested some worshippers. Muslims must defend their religion against the terrorist groups that are taking...
Date of source: Sunday, August 15, 2004
“The good Muslim and the evil Muslim” is the title of eminent Ugandan thinker Mahmoud Mamdani’s most recent book written in 2004. It’s predictable that the American administration would slot Muslims into categories of good and evil. Those who would help the administration fight terrorism in Iraq...
Date of source: Sunday, August 15, 2004
Last week’s editorial inspired significant feedback from readers and friends, who were eager to comment on the exclusion of Copts from leading administrative positions. Although the question has been one of the most important long-ignored problems in Egypt, it surfaced again when the recent...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 25, 2004
The Talmud is considered the first constitution of the Jewish law after the Torah, yet it became a source of problems for the Jews who study it because the topics in it are not well organized. The rulings and laws of the Talmud are still controversial for most Jewish scholars. [Father Macros does...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Last week, I discovered a bewildering fact about the Muslim community in London.
The Islamic priorities are shown as restricted to establishing a caliphate in England, not complying with the infidel government, boycotting its elections and setting plans for jihad. These are all a bunch of odd ideas...
Date of source: Thursday, July 15, 2004
Dr. Fawziya Al-Ashmawi, the secretary general of the Islamic European Conference in Paris, emphasized that the United States plants hatred of Islam and Muslims in the hearts of young Americans through educational curricula. In her interview with Al-Liwaa Al-Islami, Dr. Al-Ashmawi explained that...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 1, 2005
It was an astonishing and embarrassing episode to see the absence of the Arab World from the battle for an academic boycott of Israeli universities. Only Palestinian academics pursued the efforts to continue the British academic boycott against Israeli academia.
Date of source: Saturday, June 4, 2005
Dr. Shaykh ‘Alī Jum‘ā, Muftī of Egypt, said that Islam has limited polygamy. In a Hadīth reported by Sālim, his father, Ghaylān Ibn Salāma al-Thaqafī, had ten concubines when he embraced Islam. The Prophet Muhammad [PBUH] told him to “chose only four of them” to marry.
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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.