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Many people rushed to describe the Azhar bazaar blast that left two people killed and eight others wounded as an individual attack motivated by anger over the current Iraqi and Palestinian crises. However, soon after the Saturday two attacks in downtown Cairo’s ‘Abd al-Muncim Riyād and al-Sayyida ‘...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Despite objections from the State Department, which issues an annual report on religious freedom worldwide, the law criminalizing anti-Semitism has been passed by the U.S. Congress and signed by President George W. Bush. This law, that is designed to please Jews before the elections, defines anti-...
Date of source: Sunday, May 20, 2007
The author investigates an incident in Iraq, where a Fatwá was issued to the Assyrian Christian residents in a suburb of Baghdad, to convert to Islam or face death. He reviews the responses to the crisis, and provides his own perspective on the issue.
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The new American law is yet another gift kindly offered by US President George W. Bush to Israel, adding to the myriad pledges and guarantees lavishly given to the Hebrew state by the White House inhabitant. The new law prompted opposition on the part of the US State Department as spokesman Richard...
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On August 26, Al-Liwaa Al-Islami published an article on its front page by the Minister of Information Dr. Mamdouh Al-Beltagi, who signed the article in his capacity as the head of the media secretariat of the National Democratic Party.
"It is not possible to deal lightly with the evils of Nazism...
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Egyptian newspapers gave considerable space to the issue of the expected banning of the Islamic veil in France. Discussions of the issue reached their peak last Wednesday, December 17, when President Jacques Chirac called for a new law banning the wearing of head scarves for Muslim girls, of...
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The Islamic Research Institute issued a fatwa to the effect that jihad against the US in its war on Iraq is an individual duty on all Muslims. The fatwa has received both positive and negative comments and is reported to have raised the anger of the US Embassy in Cairo.
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The truth of the ?Protocols of the Elders of Zion? and the dramatic treatment of history are the focus of the articles commenting on ?Knight without a horse.? President Mubarak has sent a message to the Israeli president stressing that the series is not based on the ?Protocols.? The American...
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The report of the American
State Department on religious freedom in the world lists Egypt among the countries where religious freedom is
violated. The report claims that Egypt does not respect non-Islamic religions and pressures their followers. It does
not give them religious freedom to the...
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National pride has led Egypt to
strongly criticize the American decision to freeze additional foreign aid to Egypt in protest of the prosecution of
human rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim. Observers believe the decision is an effort to influence Egyptian
policies.
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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.