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Date of source: Thursday, March 1, 2007
Reverend Jerry Lamon Falwell was born on August 11, 1933 in Lynchburg, Virginia and deceased in May 2007. In 1967, Falwell created an evangelical educational institution called the Lynchburg Christian Academy. The most echoing case of insult caused by Falwell was September 2002, when he gave an...
Date of source: Saturday, July 6, 2002
Omar Ahmed, chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called the statement of Jerry Vines a ‘reckless, anti-Islamic statement´ which could lead to more hate crimes against Muslims in the US. Vines´ statement and other similar statements not only create a wedge between Muslims and...
Date of source: Friday, June 21, 2002
Rev. Jerry Vines who belongs to the Southern Baptist Convention claimed that Christianity was founded by the Son of God who was born of a virgin, while Islam was founded by Muhammad who married twelve women. The Council for American Islamic Relations called upon President George Bush and the...
Date of source: Friday, March 9, 2001
An American pastor described Islam as a religion that teaches hatred. The statement stirred up a wide outcry among Christians and Muslims in the United States. Because of the harsh criticisms that were leveled at his statement, he backed down on his opinion.
Date of source: Thursday, March 8, 2001
The RNSAW usually places no articles which were not published in an Arab medium in the Arab World or which have no relation to the Arab World. In this case this text of CAIR-NET is provided because of the article below in Asharq Al-Awsat, one day after the CAIR-NET (and probably others) spread the...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 12, 2000
The article in Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, December 6, was based in a press release of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an American Muslim group defending the civil rights of Muslims in the USA. CAIR declared its support for a Christian woman who wanted to wear what she believes to be a...
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.