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The visit of Shaykh Qaradawi to the UK trigged angry British media responses. The Shaykh was described as an extremist, a radical and a hard-liner. Shaykh Qaradawi’s support of martyrdom operations carried out by Palestinians and his calls for punishing homosexuals were highlighted as evidence of...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 13, 2005
A Muslim
intellectual said that the provisions of Islam regulating the relationship between Muslims and the kitabīs [People of
the Book] should not function as a basis to rule that those kitabīs are disbelievers.
Date of source: Thursday, March 17, 2005
In an interview with al-Liwā’ al-Islāmī, Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Studies at al-Azhar University, Dr. Sucād Sālih contended that her selection as a member of the World Union of Muslim Scholars is an acknowledgement of women’s rights granted by Islam 14 centuries ago. She stressed that...
Date of source: Saturday, February 5, 2005
Dr. Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awwā, the prominent Islamic thinker and the Secretary General of the International Association of Muslim Scholars (IAMS), called for peaceful coexistence and fraternity between Muslims and non-Muslims.