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Date of source: Tuesday, September 6, 2005
Iran is an Islamic Republic governed by the Islamic sharī‘a. Yet a quick look at the history of the state makes it clear that many cruel practices are contradictory to the Holy Qur’ān and generally accepted hadīths.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Salman Rushdie said in an interview that reform would guarantee Muslims’ accession to the modern era, criticizing top clerics and shaykhs for dragging their feet over the reform of Islam.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 16, 2005
There has been massive media coverage about Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie , a British novelist of Indian origin. In the novel, Rushdie states how he believes extremists use Islam as a reference for killing and destruction. The author condemns Rushdie’s claim that the Qur’ān is not a revealed...
Date of source: Sunday, September 15, 2002
The rage against Islam did not start with September 11 but September 11 brought the already existing feelings in the open. Therefore, Muslims have to move from within the Western nations, speak their language and use the logic they understand in order to remove the preconceived ideas and...
Date of source: Monday, May 27, 2002
The International Herald Tribune published an article titled “Scholars Scrutinize the Origin of the Qur´an Exposed to Death.” The author of the article claimed that the Qur´an contains a clear warning against criticizing or scrutinizing it. Those who ignored this warning were threatened...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 5, 2002
Khalid Dowran is a Muslim Arab living in America. He wrote a book titled “The Seed of Abraham…Towards an Understanding of Islam.” The book caused a wide controversy to the extent that the leader of one of the Islamic groups in Jordan issued a fatwa that charges Dowran of kufr [unbelief]. In the...
Date of source: Saturday, January 19, 2002
The article raised the two questions of why do Arabs and Muslims hate America and why do Americans and westerners hate Arabs and Muslims? The author tries to answer these two questions. He believes that the two questions should be presented simultaneously for consideration as they shed light on the...
Date of source: Thursday, February 9, 2006
The author argues that it is no good believing in an interfaith dialogue as long as there are double standards when it comes to dealing with Muslims.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 25, 2006
‘Abd al-Masīh Basīt denounces Dan Brown’s novel, The Da Vinci Code, as containing many errors and false allegations. He adds that the book is nothing but an attack on Christianity.
Date of source: Saturday, October 29, 2005
Recently a Calcutta court has lifted a ban, imposed by the Bangladeshi authorities, on a book by Taslima Nasrin. The Bangladeshi court considered the book offensive to Muslims.
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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.