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Date of source: Friday, July 5, 2002
The Dutch parliament ended its discussions about the crisis that NOVA TV station caused recently regarding the situation of the Muslim community in the Netherlands, its relations with extremism and the imams´ role in this. The majority of parliamentary members voted in favor of a resolution to...
Date of source: Monday, October 3, 2005
The Dutch government approved a proposal by Immigration and Integration Minister Rita Verdonk to deport convicted immigrants from the Netherlands to their countries of origin.
Date of source: Monday, November 8, 2004
The assassination of Theo van Gogh resulted in a debate in Dutch media about the limits of the freedom of expression. Van Gogh himself specialized in offensive language against religion; his words were deliberately calculated to hurt people. Others, found van Gogh had gone too far, misused the...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 7, 2004
This article is a debate between the leader of the Dutch liberal party, Frits Bolkestein and the Islamic thinker Muhammad Arkoun. Arkoun states that there is a difference between open-minded tolerant secularism and dogmatic closed-minded secularism that opposes any kind of religiosity. The French...
Date of source: Monday, April 26, 2004
The Dutch parliament has approved closing down Al-Tawheed [Monotheism] Mosque in Amsterdam. This decision was a result of translating and marketing two Islamic book urging punishing homosexuals and applying hadd [Islamic penality] on them to protect the society from corruption.
Date of source: Sunday, December 2, 2001
The Italian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia was recalled after declaring his conversion to Islam. Some Italian newspapers explain that the reason behind the recall is to question the ambassador’s motives for conversion. Other newspapers speculated that due to the racist attitude of the European public...
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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.