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Date of source: Sunday, March 5, 2006
This writer, with a non-Western background, writes in strong support of Western values, especially freedom of expression in light of the Danish cartoon crisis, and condemns multiple aspects of the Islamic society as being inferior.
Date of source: Sunday, March 5, 2006
The author is writing about the Danish cartoon crisis. He says that respect is not a right and adds that freedom of speech depends on people accepting criticism, even where it is quite clearly disrespectful, and that this is a price well worth paying for freedom of speech. He holds that freedom of...
Date of source: Saturday, March 4, 2006
The author writes on the punishment received by the British historian David Irving and London Mayor Ken Livingstone for offending Jews, saying that this proves that freedom of expression in Europe is not as absolute as one might imagine.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 31, 2003
Al-Muhajeroun [the immigrants], the most important Fundamentalist movement in Britain, will hold a number of Islamic conferences in the beginning of the year 2004. The leader of the movement, Omar Bakri, stated that the new conference entitled "In Confrontation with Former Fundamentalist Thought,"...
Date of source: Saturday, December 20, 2003 to Friday, December 26, 2003
Swiss authorities did not take any actions against terrorist organizations in Switzerland except after it lost two Swiss citizens in the events of September 11. The extensive investigations, which started directly after September 11 and was completed some days ago, unexpectedly revealed that the...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 23, 2003
British researcher Kit Victoria McDonald Daniels [the name is a transliteration from the Arabic, could not be found on the internet] had chosen the stories of Youssef Al-Sharouni to be the subject of her PhD thesis for the University of London. Al-Sharouni expressed rejection of the researcher...
Date of source: Saturday, December 13, 2003
Islam encourages ethics and Islamic texts state that some non-Muslims are people of ethics. Some events show that Muslims are not the only people who have ethics. There are some non-Muslims whose behavior is more ethical than some people who claim that they are Muslims. The opposing attitude of...
Date of source: Sunday, December 7, 2003
Father Matta Al-Meskeen is the most controversial monk in the Coptic Orthodox Church. Despite the fact that he has become one of the symbols of Coptic thinking all over the world, his writings are attacked by some of the leaders of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Yet, many believe he is “God´s...
Date of source: Sunday, December 7, 2003
An official security source from the State Security Prosecution Department of Giza governorate stated that the suspects in the sectarian strife incidents in the village of Garza were released on a bail of three thousand pounds for each pending the hearing of the lawsuit which is due to take place...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 2, 2003
In a sarcastic tone, the author claims that he reads many articles in the Arabic press that make pretty and heavy reading but are in effect taken from the foreign press. These articles are assembled and their authors give them Islamized introductions and nationalistic conclusions. He calls this “...
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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.