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Date of source: Sunday, April 5, 2015
A yearly meeting for Muslims concludes in France with 50,000 participants
On Monday, the 32nd annual meeting for Muslims in France closed in the suburb of Le Bourget in Paris. The event lasted for three days and was organized by the Union of Islamic Organizations in France (non-profit). The title...
Date of source: Saturday, September 30, 2006
Last week two mosques in south
and north-west France were attacked
by vandals, who daubed the walls with scrawled swastikas and racist
slogans. French Interior Minister Nikolas
Sarkozy condemned the vandalism, noting that attacks on places of
worship are intolerable. The minister called on...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 2, 2003
For the last few months, France has been witnessing a cultural and ideological conflict that arises from what we may call renewing the religious discourse. The conflict started when the former French Minister of Interior invented the term “the Islam of France,” which developed to become an...
Date of source: Sunday, May 11, 2003
The author comments on the establishment of the first Islamic council in France and gives a background about it.
Date of source: Monday, May 5, 2003
The article is an overview of a book by the head of the French Council of the Islamic Religion, titled “Non! L’Islam n’est pas Politique [Islam is not politics].”
Date of source: Sunday, May 4, 2003
The administrative board of the French Council of the Islamic Religion has finally been elected. Algerian Dalil Boubakeur has been elected as its president. This council is the first body to represent and speak in the name of the Muslim community in France.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 23, 2003
In the recent election of the Islamic Council in France, the Muslim Moroccan community won 16 of the 41 seats of the council. Bu-Bakr, the imam of Paris Mosque and the official representative of Muslims in France, is worried about the Islamic Organizations Union, which is supported by the Egyptian...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Muhammad Emara is right that some Christians have been using unfair missionary methods such as using moments that people are weak to spread the Gospel but it is unfair to generalize this for all Christians [see art. 9 in this issue]
Date of source: Wednesday, February 1, 2006
In the drama that followed the republishing of the Danish cartoons across several European nations, the Danish and Norwegian Embassies in Damascus, and also the Danish Consulate in Beirut, were all burnt down. These incidents prompted those foreign ministers to advise their people to leave Syria...
Date of source: Friday, September 30, 2005
French Foreign Minister, Philip Douste-Blazy, met yesterday with the Grand Imām of the Azhar, Dr. Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, and affirmed his country’s desire to promote bilateral cooperation with the Azhar.
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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.