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Date of source: Wednesday, May 10, 2006
The author investigates the rampant ultra- religious current and the niqāb phenomenon inside the Fine Arts College in Egypt, starting his 11- page news feature with a photo depicting several female students wearing the niqāb inside the college with a caption reading "this is a photo of...
Date of source: Thursday, September 15, 2005
Islam has come under fire in some international media circles. Qur’ānic verses are sometimes taken out of context in an attempt to distort the meanings of the Holy Book. The author discusses the media’s interaction with Islam.
Date of source: Saturday, October 12, 2002 to Friday, October 18, 2002
The tradition of the niqab has become widespread in Egypt, especially in poor quarters. The niqab is an inherited tradition and not a pillar of the Islamic faith. It was transmitted to Egypt from some Islamic and Arabic countries that live by the traditions of nomadic life and not by the orders of...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 4, 2006
Ahmad Shawqī al-Fanjarī blames the backwardness of Muslims on three persons, namely "the extremist Indian writer Abu al-‘Ala al-Mawdudī, the illiterate Bedouin Mufti who spearheads the Wahābī call ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Bin Bāz and Mullah Muhammad ‘Umar who applies his fatwas with whips and guns in...
Date of source: Saturday, November 5, 2005 to Friday, November 11, 2005
The author argues that the Saudi Wahābīs are using their petrodollars to propagate Islam as a religion of violence and extremism, and not one of science, modern technology and innovation.
Date of source: Saturday, September 18, 2004
Muslim extremist sheikhs, the Muslim Brotherhood and terrorist groups agree that a secularist is an unbeliever because he determines the type of relation he has with others according to the principle of citizenship. According to them, taking non-Muslims as friends is an act of unbelief even if...
Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 2004
Yesterday the founding council of the Muslim World League inaugurated the 38th session of the council in Mecca. Sheikh Abdel Aziz Bin Abdullah Bin Abdel Aziz, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia said that Islam is innocent of the accusations directed to it. "It was revealed that those who accuse Islam...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 2, 2004
Muhammad Hassan, a Muslim preacher, said in one of his audio tapes that singing is like adultery. He works on trying to recruit the largest number of youths to join Gama’at Ansar Al Sunna Al Muhamadiya [The Champions of Mohammedan Sunna]. He transforms them into followers who obey him and follow...
Date of source: Monday, January 6, 2003
Wahhabism does not apply the true Islam. One of the crimes that Wahhabism committed against Arab thinking is that it brought forth a generation of sheikhs who established a form of backward Islam and flooded Muslims with fatwas they made to suit their ideas.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 29, 2000
[Translator’s note: All Translation of verses from the Qur’an are taken from The Koran Interpreted, Arthur J. Arberry, Oxford University Press, 1964.]
Dr. Abdel-Sabour Shahin stressed that the Azhar did not do an act of courtesy in its report on his book "My Father Adam". He declared his opposition...
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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.