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Date of source: Saturday, October 23, 2004
The European authorities fear that imams of Arab origin can poison the European communities with their ideas and encourage terror. Accordingly many European countries were encouraged to establish institutes to graduate a European generation of imams.
Date of source: Saturday, September 18, 2004
The Turkish government pulled back the draft law criminalizing adultery and penalizing adulterers with prison. Turkish media outlets, feminine organizations and a number of government officials launched a fierce campaign to drop the proposal. It seems that political and media pressures managed to...
Date of source: Saturday, August 7, 2004
Last Sunday’s church bombings has ignited worry and caution among Iraqis who fear the outbreak of sectarian battles between Muslims and Christians. It was especially shocking that the churches were full of worshippers when the bombings took place. The attacks were the first to target Christians...
Date of source: Saturday, March 20, 2004
Terrorists have changed their strategies after the precautionary measures taken by world countries in airports and on board of planes following the September 11 attacks. Terrorist operations now target trains and train stations, where a massive number of people crowd, especially during rush hour....
Date of source: Saturday, January 24, 2004
There has been an uproar in
Spain due to a religious book written by the mosque Imam Sheikh Muhammad Kamal Mustafa, titled
"Women in Islam." Women’s rights groups denounced the book. They think that the book urges
violence against women.
The problem about the book is the part in which Sheikh...
Date of source: Saturday, February 14, 2004
The article is about the movie "The Passion of Christ,” which is about to be shown in
theaters all over the world. The movie is causing a fuss because it once again poses the question
of who killed Christ and whether the Jews are responsible for his death.
Some people
protested the story of the...
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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.