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Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2005
The establishment of the first Islamic media center in Holland signals a new era in Islamic activism in the West in general and in Holland in particular.
The members in the center include all Islamic organizations in the West and a number of important writers and media people in Europe who are...
Date of source: Sunday, February 20, 2005
While those who convert to Islam, such as Cat Stevens, Jemina Khan, and Lord Birt, the former BBC Director – General, can publicly celebrate their new religion, those whose faith goes in the other direction face persecution.
Muslims who lose their faith face execution or imprisonment, in line with...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 15, 2005
The murderer of the Dutch filmmaker, Theo Van Gogh, was one of four million Dutch who have two nationalities. Gogh was shot dead on an Amsterdam street in a region inhabited by immigrants, foreigners and workmen who came from Morocco after the Second World War on the invitation of the Dutch...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 8, 2005
An Arabic newspaper published that the Netherlands had banned Muslims from practicing some sports like shooting for fear of their extremism and terrorist tendencies. The Netherlands, though famous for its tolerance and democracy, is now facing a very different reality.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Dutch MP of Somali origin Ayyān Hirsī cAli appeared in the Dutch parliament headquarters in the Hague on January 18, 2005 for the first time since she left the country aboard a military aircraft on November 10, 2004, just eight days after the assassination in the streets of Amsterdam of Dutch...
Date of source: Friday, January 14, 2005
A Dutch friend told me that a brothel filed a lawsuit against the Dutch government for not allowing it to open a new branch at Schiphol airport.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 6, 2004
An opinion survey conducted by the Dutch daily Volkskrant shows that eighteen percent of Muslims living in The Netherlands have never gone to a mosque, 27% of them go to mosques only on Fridays and religious feasts, while 51 % of them go to mosques several times during the month.
Date of source: Thursday, December 13, 2001
Usama Rushdie, a leader in the Gama’at Al-Islamiya, said that he would not be extradited to the Egyptian authorities because there is no agreement between Egypt and Holland for exchanging fugitives.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 18, 2001
The German Pontifical Mission Aid Society Missio organized a two-day conference with the title "Persecuted Christians? Analysis from Asia and Africa." Missio invited representatives from Nigeria, Pakistan, Syria, the Lebanon, Iraq and Egypt to their conference who asked for care in using the word ’...
Date of source: Sunday, September 2, 2001
A cooperation protocol between the Azhar and the Islamic University of Rotterdam, in Holland, which is suspected of having Zionist associations, was signed. The deputy of the Azhar University said that before signing such a protocol, the Azhar had consulted the Egyptian Embassy, in Holland, and...
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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.