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Date of source: Sunday, November 6, 2005
A report issued by Dutch intelligence officers in October identified a network of five to 10 Islamists claimed to have attempted to hijack an Israeli El-Al airliner last August.
Date of source: Saturday, November 5, 2005
Mu‘tazz al-Khatīb writes that many orientalists have been preoccupied with the ongoing debate on the relationship between Islam and the West. Montgomery Watt, Bruce B. Lawrence, and other have revealed how Islam is often portrayed as an alien, hostile and violent religion.
Date of source: Sunday, October 30, 2005
"Bomb Mecca if US attacked,” congressman Thomas Tancredo of Colorado said in an interview with a Florida Radio Station.
Date of source: Sunday, October 23, 2005
Sharīf Malīka calls upon Coptic Christians to participate fully in the parliamentary elections, an event that brings together all Egyptians, Muslims and Christians, to discuss ways to revive the moribund democratic process.
Date of source: Sunday, October 16, 2005
A discussion of the political rights of the Copts.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 12, 2005
In an interview, Pope Shenouda III answers questions about the Coptic Orthodox Church’s stance towards expatriate Copts and the conference they were to hold to discuss persecution of Copts in Egypt. Other issues, such as the Church’s stands towards the presidential and parliamentary elections are...
Date of source: Sunday, October 9, 2005
Youssef Sidhom discusses discrimination against the Copts in Egypt, and wonders why it is only in Washington that this issue is being discussed.
Date of source: Sunday, October 9, 2005
Sulaymān Shafīq argues that according to the 1995 statistics [Reviewer's note: The author perhaps was mistaken because the statistics were conducted in 1996, not 1995, as Christian surveys are usually made every 10 years and the last ones took place in 1986], Copts represent 22.5 percent of the...
Date of source: Sunday, October 2, 2005
The author discusses the three levels of flagrant inequality between Copts and Muslims in terms of their citizenship rights, arguing that though the situation is dismal, great efforts must be made to correct imbalances between Christians and Muslims.
Date of source: Monday, October 3, 2005
Copts abroad are also alleging that Christian girls are kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam, forgetting that Egyptian law criminalizes the act of harassing women in public. Egypt is not Chicago nor is it a barbaric society ruled by whims. In Egypt, any man would rush to the aid of a woman,...
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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.