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Date of source: Tuesday, February 13, 2007
The French Council for Islamic Religion [CFCM], the Grand Mosque of Paris and the Union of Islamic Organizations of France have filed a lawsuit against Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical political weekly newspaper, for reprinting the controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad on February...
Date of source: Saturday, May 24, 2003 to Friday, May 30, 2003
The grandson of Hassan Al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood group, delivered a lecture at the Institut du Monde Arabe [The Institute of the Arab World]. He attacked fundamentalism and asked young Muslims not to melt away and lose their culture and at the same time not to isolate...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 9, 2004
Paris rejected a Jewish call from a US-based Jewish group for legal action against a leading Islamic organization in France, accused of anti-Semitism and alleged to have contacts with the Islamic resistance movement, Hamas.
Date of source: Sunday, October 31, 2004
By listening to Muhammad Mehdi Akef, the seventh guide of the Islamist organization founded in 1928 by Hassan Al-Banna, one has a feeling of dealing with a personality that is regarded as the "pope" of Islam.
Date of source: Saturday, September 11, 2004
The secretary general of the Union of French Islamic Organizations (UOIF) Fouad Elwi held a meeting with the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France. The results of this session were beyond what was expected due to the atmosphere of tension that prevailed during the meeting....
Date of source: Friday, September 3, 2004
Pupils went back to school in France yesterday, on the first day of implementation of the new law banning obvious religious symbols – among them the hijab – from state schools. This happened without serious incident after the story of the two French journalists kidnapped in Iraq grabbed the nation’...
Date of source: Thursday, July 15, 2004
President Chirac described the case of the French woman, Marie, who claimed that she was abused in a metro station in Paris as ‘pathetic’. This case has become a source of criticism of public authorities and mass media for their blind haste whenI it was discovered that the pathetic story was Marie’...
Date of source: Saturday, July 10, 2004
French Minister of Education Francois Fillon warned against any violation of the laws of the French Republic saying that any violation will be met with extreme firmness.
The French Minister made this statement in response to a statement of the Union of Islamic Organizations of France, which...
Date of source: Saturday, April 2, 2005
The Union of
Islamic Organizations of France (UOIF) held its 22nd conference, March 25-28, at Le Bourget, under the title ‘For a special
Islam of France,’ a motto held by many French Islamic Organizations to stand the previously established idea ‘Islam in
France.’
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.