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Date of source: Saturday, February 2, 2008 to Friday, February 8, 2008
The author criticizes the phenomenon of fundamentalist shaykhs who insist on depicting Islam as a horrifying religion by focusing on hadīths that depict the torture of the tomb after death and link piety with superficial practices and appearances.
Date of source: Saturday, September 8, 2007
Swedish cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad arouse wide protests in the Muslim countries. Muslims worldwide protest the cartoons, the newspaper, and the artist. Some Muslim countries prepared official complaints to the Swedish government and the Egyptian press observed Muslim scholars’ opinions...
Date of source: Thursday, August 23, 2007
Some churches in Western countries send missions to poor Islamic countries in what appears to be a merciful act but they are actually taking advantage of and abusing these societies in order to Christianize them.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Although apostasy cases are few, the media’s exaggerated coverage and its portrayal of these cases as a general phenomenon, angering both Muslims and Christians and threatening to ignite sectarian sedition.
Date of source: Thursday, July 19, 2007
The article presents the views of some intellectuals and Islamic scholars on the issue of Christians who converted to Islam and then decided to return to Christianity for personal and worldly factors.
Date of source: Friday, September 12, 1997
Sheik Rabiek Hag Ibn Neisan, the general mufti of Kazakhstan, has
confessed that
some Muslims have converted from Islam and become Christians. He said that this has happened because
of
financial temptations and Western aid funds, and not because converts really believe in Christianity, adding...
Date of source: Sunday, July 7, 2002
A member of the Islamic Research Institute said that Islam establishes good relations with non-Muslims and that Qur´anic verses stress the importance of respecting the dignity of all human beings, regardless of their religion, race or language. Islam deals with those who oppose it in a...
Date of source: Saturday, November 25, 2000
In the Student Union elections of this year in the Egyptian Universities the extremists lost. The moderate current won the elections in all the faculties with the exception of the faculty of Medicine, where the religious current won 25% of the positions. Extremists no longer control the Faculty of...
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.