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Date of source: Saturday, March 20, 2004
Terrorists have changed their strategies after the precautionary measures taken by world countries in airports and on board of planes following the September 11 attacks. Terrorist operations now target trains and train stations, where a massive number of people crowd, especially during rush hour....
Date of source: Wednesday, March 24, 2004
An Egyptian court issued a sudden ruling yesterday to drop the name of Usama Roshdy, an eminent Egyptian fundamentalist living abroad, from the authorities’ wanted list. The court also obliged the Egyptian government to compensate him for the suffering he has faced because of being described as a “...
Date of source: Friday, March 26, 2004
The Higher Court of State Security [Emergency] yesterday sentenced 26 suspects, including three Britons and a Palestinian, to prison terms that range between one and five years, on charges of promoting the [ideas of] a Hizb el-Tahrir [Liberation Party], an Islamic group banned in Egypt but...
Date of source: Saturday, March 27, 2004
Islamic circles in Britain were shocked yesterday by the statements of Lord George Carey, former archbishop of Canterbury (of the Anglican Church), which severely criticized the Islamic culture, describing it as an “oppressive and inflexible” culture. For the first time, fundamentalists and...
Date of source: Friday, April 9, 2004
Islam in today’s world is faced with a severe campaign from the West, which boasts of democracy, honesty and openness. But this campaign [against Islam] proves that the principles of this [Western] civilization are nothing but mottoes. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the campaign against...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 13, 2004
We could of course blame the West for the escalating racism against Muslims in Europe and throw all the responsibility on them, but we would be deceiving ourselves. We could say that there has been no real effort to correct the negative “terrorist” image that is sticking to Muslims. This image is a...
Date of source: Thursday, April 1, 2004
Anger among the Muslim minority community in Europe has increased because of provocative statements against Islamic culture made by former British Archbishop of Canterbury Lord George Carey. The Times predicted that Carey’s latest stance would cast its shadow over the conference organized by Muslim...
Date of source: Monday, April 19, 2004
A couple of days ago, BBC aired a children’s program produced by Comedy Central, an American channel, which coincided with the celebration of Eastern Easter. The film depicted Jesus Christ being killed by Iraqis who also tortured Santa Claus.
Perhaps the showing of this program reduces the...
Date of source: Monday, April 19, 2004
Eton College decided to appoint a Muslim imam to teach its students Islam. The Muslim imam is an Oxford University graduate, and many people welcome his appointment as they think that it is a positive initiative.
The College already has a Catholic priest, four evangelical pastors, and a Jewish...
Date of source: Saturday, April 24, 2004
The Rotary Club of Heliopolis [Northern Cairo] hosted Pope Shenouda III who spoke about seriousness and its importance.An open discussion followed and the participants directed many questions to the Pope on various issues including the Israeli policies, the film “the Passion of the Christ 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.