Date of source: Wednesday, January 4, 2006
Hāla Fou’ād wonders whether U.S President George W. Bush is calling for a war on terror and terrorists or Islam and Muslims.
Date of source: Saturday, January 7, 2006
U.S. political science researchers claim that establishing peace through democracy in the Muslim world is a theory doomed to failure. The author suggests that democratic Islam is now even more of a threat to the West than Bin Lādin.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 4, 2006
Sergio Romano, a celebrated columnist and political analyst in one of Italy’s leading newspapers Corriere Della Sera, who paid a recent visit to Cairo, said that the US policies against Arab and Muslim countries have drawn a growing Islamic awakening, which make it harder and harder for Muslims to...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 4, 2006
While the wave of anti-Islam keeps rising in the West and some associate Islam with terrorism, Karen Armstrong, a British writer who specialized in comparative theology, defends the Muslim faith. She is highly critical of Tony Blair’s decision to support the U.S. war on Iraq.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Mahmoud Khalīl writes that despite the atrocities committed against civilians by the British forces in World War II and the U.S. forces in Vietnam and Iraq, the world has not dared to point the finger of blame at Britain and the United States and accuse them of terrorism.
Date of source: Sunday, December 18, 2005
The author discusses Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, visit to Pakistan, and the discrimination and persecution of Christians in the Islamic world.
Date of source: Thursday, December 15, 2005
Dr. Wajīh argues that Islam is viewed in the West through the interpretations of some western writers who are believed to be experts on Islam, something which is, in many cases, not true.
Date of source: Sunday, December 11, 2005
The author examines the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, the way in which the American administration’s focus on democracy has benefited the group in Egypt and the dangers of abrupt political reform.
Date of source: Thursday, December 1, 2005
This is a translation of an article about the work of the Center for Arab-West Understanding from the Dutch daily newspaper Trouw.
Editor AWR: This article is very sharp. Senior editor Eildert Mulder has used formulations that Hulsman would never have used, but this is related to Mulder’s own...
Date of source: Sunday, November 20, 2005
The author argues that the issue of the Muslim-Christian divide must be addressed and states that successive governments have sat back and watched the growing fundamentalism and politicization of religion within Egypt.