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Date of source: Wednesday, February 6, 2002
The general secretary of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) said that there is only one Egyptian prisoner in XY-camp in Guantanamo in Cuba. He added that the recent news the EOHR had is that the family of Ayman Al-Zawahri is still alive. He said that American authorities are about to...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 6, 2002
In Britain, video and cassette tapes inciting the British Muslims to join the jihad against the Jews and the unbelievers [Christians and Westerners] are sold in front of the mosques. Some British investigators believe that these tapes were the reason for the recruiting of many British Muslims who...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 9, 2002
Islamists in Cairo and London made great efforts to halt the procedures of deporting Ali Sediq Hassanain, a member of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya. Montasser Al-Zayyat said that he held contacts with Egyptian Islamists in London and officials of the Amnesty International organization to stop...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 14, 2006
The author believes that the Jews have exploited the memory of the Holocaust to garner world’s sympathy for Israel. Given the fact that the Jews were not the only victims of Nazism, the author argues that other "Holocaust” against Palestinians should be commemorated as well.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 18, 2006
The author argues that Arab writings about the West and westerners are of vital importance for Arab and Muslims and for the Americans and Europeans too, but a problem arises when they are used to cast doubt over the idea of democracy itself and to replace it with despotism and totalitarianism.
Date of source: Thursday, December 22, 2005
The author believes that the Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy is no longer able to play an effective role as one of Egypt’s most reputable Islamic institutions.
Date of source: Sunday, June 5, 2005
It is quiet natural that the desecration of a Holy Book, a Qur’ān or a Bible, ignites rage. It can be ascribed to the human nature that is very susceptible to symbolism and metaphor.
Date of source: Sunday, June 12, 2005
Bahīy al-Dīn Hasan, the Director of the Cairo Center for Human Rights Studies comments on the annual report that was released by the National Council for Human Right which has mentioned that Egypt was used as the CIA’s Mecca to torture prisoners and extort information before sending them either to...
Date of source: Thursday, May 26, 2005
After having kept his own council for a while, the Grand Shaykh of the Azhar, Dr. Sayyid Tantāwī, has finally ended his silence concerning the Qur’ān desecration incidents in the Guantanamo prison.
Date of source: Friday, May 20, 2005
The American organization Human Rights Watch asserted that religious abuse towards detainees is something common in American prisons and detention camps. Such abuse is not limited to the incident of desecrating copies of the Qur’ān , which NewsWeek denied.
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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.