Date of source: Saturday, March 20, 2004
Islamic Britons expressed their shock yesterday after the sanctity of an Islamic grave was violated in London, an assault believed to have links to last week’s Madrid bombings. Iqbal Sakarany, the secretary general of the Islamic Council, criticized the media for using the term “Muslim terrorists”...
Date of source: Thursday, March 18, 2004
The head of the Catholic Conference of Bishops in Germany, Cardinal Karl Lehmann warned against looking at Muslims in Germany with suspicion and considering them all as suspects after the frightening attacks that took place in Madrid last week. He said in an interview with the Deutsche Welle DW...
Date of source: Sunday, April 4, 2004
The American administration attributes terrorism to culture and faith—especially Islamic faith. The lack of terrorist events during a long period of time in the Islamic culture’s history is evidence that the Islamic culture is not a reason for the terrorism that is currently taking place. So if...
Date of source: Sunday, April 18, 2004
The Western, Christian churches took up the idea of militant Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, which was the complete opposite of the Christianity Jesus left behind. The Western Church launched vicious Crusade wars against the Islamic East that lasted two centuries, from 1096 until 1291.
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: Sunday, June 6, 2004
The Egyptian Higher Institute for Culture sponsored the Conference on Translating and Connecting Cultures, aiming to connect civilizations and eliminate misunderstandings between different cultures. As a result of the political conditions surrounding the Arab region, participants spent the four...
Date of source: Thursday, June 10, 2004
The enemies of Islam insist that Islamic fundamentalism is the root of all evils. Since the start of the U.S. campaign against Islam, there is a poorly-aimed insistence on associating Islamic fundamentalism with acts of terrorism.
Date of source: Saturday, July 3, 2004
Ludwig Hagemann, a professor at the Faculty of Theology at Munster University who is a specialist in Islamic-Christian relations, presents in his book “Christianity against Islam” what he believes has been a two-hundred-year attempt to understand and deal with Islam, and to solve the unsolved...
Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 2004
The new Orientalism now uses mainly anthropological methods in interpreting classical
texts, and employs sociological methods in interpreting contemporary phenomenon. We lack access
to Western studies of classical topics as well as contemporary issues. However severely we
criticize what others...
Date of source: Saturday, January 24, 2004
There has been an uproar in
Spain due to a religious book written by the mosque Imam Sheikh Muhammad Kamal Mustafa, titled
"Women in Islam." Women’s rights groups denounced the book. They think that the book urges
violence against women.
The problem about the book is the part in which Sheikh...