Date of source: Thursday, April 20, 2006
Thirteen suspected Islamists were detained yesterday in a joint French-Italian police
operation targeting a group
reported to have links the Algerian Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat
(GSPC).
Date of source: Sunday, April 16, 2006
Using the example of the differences between Ghana and South Korea, which in the 1960s had similar incomes per head, but which had completely diverged by the 1990s, Amartya Sen argues that one should avoid attributing the difference simply to culture, أ la Huntington. Sen then challenges...
Date of source: Sunday, April 9, 2006
With the blessings of Pope Benedict XVI, Bishop Antonius Najīb has been ordained as patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church in Egypt, succeeding Cardinal Stephanos II Ghattās who resigned for health reasons.
Date of source: Saturday, April 8, 2006
Egyptian Rabi‘ ‘UthmaЃn, known
as Muhammad al-MasriЃ, is suspected of involvement in planning the Madrid train bombs in 2004
Date of source: Wednesday, April 5, 2006
The speaker of the Italian Senate,
Marcello Pera has launched a train called “The West Express” with the aim of warning Christian Europe against what
he describes as the Islamic threat.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 30, 2001
The author commented on the Italian Prime Minister’s claim that the Western civilization is superior to Islam. Islamic civilization vanished for a while because of the pressure of western piracy. The West should realize that the Western civilization they are boasting about is the daughter of...
Date of source: Saturday, October 20, 2001 to Friday, October 26, 2001
In this article Bishop Yohanna Qulta gives an overview of the history of the Crusader wars. He expressed the opinion that in order to study the history of the Crusades, we have to remove Islam and Christianity as motives for them because, they were not directed at Islam although they were fought...
Date of source: Saturday, October 13, 2001
The author refuted what V.S. Naipaul said about Islam being a disaster for Asia as it wiped out all the public cultures of the countries it conquered. He gave Egypt and Spain as examples of the fact that Islam did not wipe out the cultures of the countries it conquered but interacted with them. He...
Date of source: Thursday, October 11, 2001
The author expressed the opinion that when the Italian Prime Minister said that the Western Civilization was superior to the Islamic one, he did not understand the difference between civilization and religion and that was why he compared between the Western civilization and the Islamic religion....
Date of source: Saturday, October 13, 2001
The terrorist attacks of September 11 brought to the surface the issue of the clash between civilizations, which was thought to have disappeared with the appearance of globalization. If Muslims reject the idea of a clash being there between civilizations and think there should be a dialogue...