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Date of source: Wednesday, January 14, 2004
The issue of banning the Ḥijāb as well as other religious symbols at French schools and public institutions are still occupying the Arabic press. The article gives a list of the articles published on this subject.
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More than twenty-five articles in the Arabic newspapers are dedicated to the issue of eliminating religious signs in French schools and its relationship to secularism. President Jacques Chirac?s speech on this issue has provoked contradictory reactions, not only inside the French community,...
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British authorities deposed Egyptian fundamentalist Abū Hamza al-Masri from being the Imām of Finsbury Park
Mosque because he used his position to give political statements. The ?Sun? paper reported the news of his deposition
and asked its readers to call him on his cellular phone and ask him to...
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Scotland Yard raided the mosque where Egyptian fundamentalist Abū Hamza al-Masri preaches, after
receiving information from the French intelligence service about it. British officials stressed that such measures are
not against Islām. al-Masri led the Friday prayers in the street for two...
Date of source: Saturday, January 4, 2003 to Monday, January 6, 2003
Criticism of a documentary film on the Holy Virgin aired by the B.B.C. The film claims that Mary was not a virgin when she gave birth to Jesus Christ and that Jesus was the outcome of a relationship she had with a Roman leader.
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The Islamic Research Institute issued a fatwa to the effect that jihad against the US in its war on Iraq is an individual duty on all Muslims. The fatwa has received both positive and negative comments and is reported to have raised the anger of the US Embassy in Cairo.
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The Azhar urges all Muslims to jihad if a US war is launched against Iraq. The Coptic Orthodox Church sent a message to Kofi Anan asking the UN to prevent a war against Iraq. The Presbyterian Church in Ezbekia district witnessed a peaceful anti-war demonstration and a group of Egyptian Copts signed...
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The religious dimension of the war on Iraq has been and still is the focus of articles covering the war. This is in addition to news items about Kurdish Islamic groups being attacked by the US and comments on fundamentalist Islam in the light of the war. For the first time, the role of the media or...
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Egyptian papers are giving much space to news about the anticipated war on Iraq.
Some articles tackle the morality of the war and others discuss the issue from a religious point of view.
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A well-known Christian journalist, Mufid Fawzy, described Sheikh Amr Khaled as Don Juan and Rasputin and associated his traveling to England with the decision of a young actress to remove her veil. His words were met with angry reactions. Khaled?s supporters started a new campaign to make the...
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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.