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Date of source: Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Terrorist attacks have been on the rise lately, with the most recent one being an attack on a synagogue in Austria. On November 2, gunmen attacked six locations in Vienna, resulting in one death and at least 16 others being injured with the police killing one of the assailants.
Austria and Islam…From Coexistence and Recognizing Muslims to Animosity and Accusations of Terrorism
Date of source: Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Four people were killed in a terrorist attack as several gunmen opened fire on six different locations in downtown Vienna, Austria. The minister of the interior said that the police killed one of the gunmen and are still looking for another gunman who is on the run. He also announced that the...
Date of source: Saturday, October 31, 2020
The Observatory for Monitoring Takfiri Fatwas and Extremist Views condemned the terrorist attack targeting a Greek Orthodox priest in the French city of Lyon.
Date of source: Monday, October 26, 2020
In a meeting led by Shaykh of al-Azhar Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib on Monday, the Muslim Council of Elders condemned the systematic campaign seeking to disparage the Prophet Muḥammad and mock Islam under the motto of “freedom of expression.” It also condemned the murder of French teacher Samuel Paty as...
Date of source: Sunday, October 25, 2020
Since the beheading of a French history teacher by a religious extremist in France, French officials have been facing outcry on social media for their statements insisting the incident is linked to Islam.
Date of source: Sunday, October 11, 2020
Shaykh of al-Azhar Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib condemned the statement that “Muslims are terrorists,” emphasizing that “Many people, including even some Muslims, were deluded into accepting the allegation.”
Date of source: Friday, October 9, 2020
In this article, the author discusses French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent statements about Islam in relation to France’s treatment of its Muslim and immigrant population. He writes the following:
Date of source: Thursday, October 8, 2020
In his book The French Suicide (2014), the right-wing author Éric Zemmour discussed the collapse of France on several levels. He focused onto lingering anxieties over migration and a deadly spate of terrorist violence that began in 2015. In the novel Submission by Michel Houellebecq, he imagines a...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Dr. Shawqī ʿAllām, Grand Mufti of Egypt, welcomed a high ranking American delegation led by John Barsa, head of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Jonathan Cohen, American ambassador to Cairo, and Samah Norquist, chief advisor for international religious freedom at...
Date of source: Saturday, October 24, 2020
The Islamic World Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation (ICESCO) has expressed its concern about the offensive portrayal of the Prophet Muḥammad (PBUH) in French media and political discourse. They explain that this has provoked anger among more than half a billion Muslims around 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.