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Date of source: Saturday, May 31, 2003
An American Muslim has brought an action suit against the authorities of Florida state, USA. Authorities refused issuing her a driving license that has a photo of her wearing the niqab [veil that covers hair and face]. She believes such a rejection violates her personal religious freedom. Officials...
Date of source: Saturday, January 18, 2003
The Council of American-Islamic Relations [CAIR] asked Christian leaders in Florida to remove a sign hanging outside a Protestant Church there as it offends Islam. CAIR says that the sign may contribute to the increasing intolerant feelings towards Muslims in Florida.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 19, 2002
Dr. Bob Edgar denounces the statement of Vines and explained that “many Southern Baptists, along with American Baptists and others, have publicly voiced their dismay at his divisive language, emphasizing that he does not speak for them. They note with sadness that Vines´ remarks may well...
Date of source: Monday, March 26, 2007
The U.S. Administration continues to care and fund a series of suspicious conferences that aim to defame Islam through promoting false concepts and slogans about it under the pretext of ’Islamic reformation.’
Date of source: Sunday, October 30, 2005
"Bomb Mecca if US attacked,” congressman Thomas Tancredo of Colorado said in an interview with a Florida Radio Station.
Date of source: Thursday, September 16, 2004
The office of the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the state of Florida reported that the University of Sawth Florida, one of the biggest American universities, allowed a Muslim student in the university's basketball team to play the games while in veil and long sport costumes.
Date of source: Friday, December 17, 2004
On December 9, 2004, the Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR) demanded that the Ministry of Justice investigate the burning of two mosques,
one in Arizona and the other in Massachusetts. CAIR is the largest organization for Muslim
American civil rights in the U.S. The Ministry of Justice...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 4, 2001
Hundreds of Copts who live in North American took to the streets outside the White House to protest the Egyptian government’s sponsored persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt. The demonstration took place while President Mubarak was inside the White House meeting with President Bush. The...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 20, 1999
Hundreds of wealthy Beirutis, harkening to the appeal of their Sufi Muslim mystical leader, are moving to the mountains to avoid "catastrophes" as the millennium approaches.
Date of source: Thursday, May 27, 1999 to Wednesday, June 2, 1999
Shortly after Ali Abul-Saoud Mustafa, a fugitive Egyptian Islamist, was arrested in the United States last month, he was accused by American prosecution authorities of cooperating with Saudi dissident Osama Bin Laden in a worldwide anti-American conspiracy. The Egyptian government had requested...
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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.