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Date of source: Friday, December 8, 2023
On Thursday, December 7th, Denmark’s parliament adopted a law prohibiting the burning of copies of the Holy Qurʾān in response to a series of incidents where Islam's holy book was desecrated, which sparked outrage in Muslim countries.
Date of source: Friday, August 4, 2023
Foreign ministry spokesman, Aḥmad Abū Zayd, said that Egypt’s Foreign Minister, Sāmiḥ Shukrī, received a phone call from his Danish counterpart, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, to discuss repeated incidents of the desecration of the holy Qurʾān and the crimes of contempt of religion that jeopardize peaceful...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 30, 2019
The interview with Ambassador Mona Omar was held at the Diplomatic Club, in Cairo on 7th July; the discussion was fully recorded with the Ambassador’s permission. This text was presented to Ambassador Mona Omar on July 21, 2019. The Ambassador had no objections to publishing this text.
Ambassador...
Date of source: Saturday, February 22, 2014
Anger rose in the Muslim circles as well as Muslim organizations in Denmark after the decision of the Danish government to ban slaughtering animals in the Islamic manner was publicized. A number of activists have started a counter campaign that included Muslims and Jewish denominations (Mahmūd Zakī...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Organization Danish Halal that includes more than 53 Muslim organizations has criticized the decision of the Danish Ministry of Agriculture to ban any form of animal-slaughter without making them unconscious first. It considered this decision to be discriminatory against some religious minorities (...
Date of source: Thursday, May 24, 2018
These are edited remarks from Matthew Anderson's public dissertation defense at Georgetown University on May 22, 2018, presented to Arab-West Report at the request of Cornelis Hulsman who was in attendance.
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Metropolitan Bīshūy is known to be quite the controversial and outspoken figure in regards to other Christian denominations besides the Coptic Orthodox Church. In 2007, the metropolitan had reportedly made a statement in regards to the Protestant and Roman Catholic Christians in Egypt,...
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At the ninth United Nations Congress on the prevention of crime and the treatment of offenders, central issues were discussd regarding the spread of organized crime and the dangers posed by its international tendencies. The conference was held in Cairo from 29 April to 8 May 1995. It...
Date of source: Sunday, October 1, 2006
Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen was born in Denmark in 1963. He is director of The Danish-Egyptian Dialogue Institute (DEDI), situated in Cairo, Egypt. Skovgaard-Petersen advocates striving for mutual understanding between cultures in order to live in peaceful coexistence. According to him this...
Date of source: Thursday, February 1, 2007
Flemming Rose is a Danish journalist, author and since 2010 foreign affairs editor at the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. As culture editor of the same newspaper, he was responsible for the September 2005 publication of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons that led to huge controversy early the...
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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.