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Date of source: Saturday, April 1, 2006 to Friday, April 7, 2006
This Coptic author Salīm Najīb, the head of the Canadian Coptic Organization, is criticizing the article by Muslim journalist Usāma Salāma, which he says was filled with anti-Coptic threats and warnings against the bids to internationalize issues of Copts in Egypt.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 6, 2002
The false declarations by American pastor Jerry Falwell against Islam is not a new phenomenon for Western society. Still, there are Western men of religion, like father Jan Landouzy, who express objective opinions towards Islam. It is important that Muslim scholars get acquainted with what...
Date of source: Saturday, April 6, 2002
This article opposes the use of the phrase ´Islamic terror.´ There is a lot of spin, and the media takes it for granted. Islamic Terror exists in the same way and to the same extent as the Jewish Conspiracy and Yellow Peril. In other words, none of them exist.
Date of source: Saturday, October 23, 2004
The fatwa of Sheikh Muhammad Kamal Mustafa, Imam of the mosque of the Spanish town of Fuengirola and mufti of the Islamic community in Spain, allowing husbands to beat their wives triggered a wave of rage and rejection from women’s rights organizations that interpreted the fatwa as a call for...
Date of source: Friday, September 10, 2004
This lecture forms the background to Lord Carey’s lecture in July in Cairo. Lord Carey explained his purpose of seeking to build bridges of understanding between Islam and Christianity. “Compassion and understanding are the only tools to handle hatred and violence.” For understanding also critical...
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: Monday, March 15, 2004
Usama Bin Laden has successfully managed to raise the bar of terrorism. A terrorist attack now has specific features; there has to be massive killing of a large number of people. There has to be flames and debris. There has to be television cameras from all over the world. It is now common news to...
Date of source: Thursday, May 6, 2004
According to the Talmud, if the mother of a child is a Jew, then the child is Jewish. Otherwise, the child is not considered Jewish. However, in 1983, the Higher Institute for Reformist Rabbis held a meeting after which it was decided that if the father of a child is Jewish and the mother is not,...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 1, 2009
The report of the committee headed by Dr. Jamāl al-‘Utayfī on the al-Khankah sectarian events in 1972 is excellent. Many of its recommendations, have however, not been followed up thoroughly with the consequence that many of the factors that played a role in the tensions in 1972 still play a role...
Date of source: Friday, March 25, 2005
Today Turkey is attempting to join the European Union and become the link between the Christian West and the Muslim East, but without wars or armies this time. Will the Europeans give a chance for the two cultures to be joined?
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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.