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Date of source: Sunday, July 3, 2005
President Ahmet Necdet Sezer of Turkey has vetoed an amendment to the country’s new penal code that would reduce penalties for teaching unauthorized courses on the Koran.
Date of source: Saturday, July 2, 2005
Professor Bruce B. Lawrence, the head of the religions department of the Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, is the author of the book Islam Beyond Violence, in which he defended the religion many Western writers allege as one that urges believers to be extreme and violent and assault...
Date of source: Thursday, June 30, 2005
The letter sent by Eric Edelman, former US Ambassador in Turkey, to the Turkish minister of religious affairs, Muhammad Eden, about Turkish anti conversion tactics, opened a hot debate about the protestant encroachment into the society and the dilemma of identity versus benefits of the European...
Date of source: Friday, June 24, 2005
The new thing about al-Qā‘ida’s second-in-command Ayman al-Zawāhirī tape aired by the Doha-based Aljazeera news channel on June 17, 2005 was that it focused on his concept of “reform,” “freedom” and “political participation.”
Date of source: Thursday, June 23, 2005
The Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Muhammad Mahdī ‘ā kif, dwelt on superstitious matters in his weekly message to the outlawed group members in a bid to convince them that "heaven would make its retaliation for the attempts to detain the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood."
Date of source: Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Some satellite channels still don’t see the difference between screening entertainment and religious shows. The Arab viewer who longed for religious reform is subjected to a new wave of religious extremism. He lived for decades as victim of religious fundamentalist rhetoric not able to adapt to the...
Date of source: Thursday, June 16, 2005
Shaykh Fawzī al-Zifzāf, head of the Azhar’s Permanent Committee for Dialogue with the Monotheistic Religions, assured that dialogue is crucial between religions since it protects the nation against misunderstanding.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Those who think about Islamic states as having to be a theocracy enforcing the rules of Islam on their inhabitants are mistaken and do not know about Islam, since it does not contradict with diversity and coexistence, like other religions. Since humans are the representatives of God on earth, it is...
Date of source: Friday, December 17, 2004
Muslim Brotherhood leaders dismissed a lawyer member, Mokhtar Nuh, following investigations assumed by a committee formed by the group’s Guidance Office. The investigations questioned Nuh’s establishing of a union for Islamic-Law-concerned lawyers putting the Brotherhood into jeopardy.
Date of source: Saturday, December 4, 2004
No one knows her exact name: Dorris Gluck, Regina Hoffman or Sara Altman. May be all those names are fake but the sure thing was that she authored a book titled “I was married to a mujahid” telling her story with her husband Reda Siam, alias Abu Omar, a kind Egyptian young man who ascended from...
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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.