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Date of source: Friday, January 10, 2003
A Yemeni extremist killed three American missionaries on December 30, 2002, in a Southern Baptist hospital in Yemen. He was quoted as saying he killed the Americans to cleanse his religion and get closer to Allah. The murder triggered Western commentaries about the role of Western missionaries in...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 10, 2004
The article is an interview with Dr. Ali Al-Samman, the Deputy of the Permanent Committee for
Inter-Religious Dialogue. Issues discussed in the interview include
inter-religious dialogue,
acts of violence, extremism, the relation between the Arab World and the West.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Chirac sees that his country has five million Muslims trying to congregate to remain in
isolation and reject France’s culture. What Chirac wants, as he read in his statement, is to
“prevent [groups from] clinging onto their affiliation to [their] groups that might threaten the
society by [these...
Date of source: Thursday, April 21, 2005
A recent initiative by 11 million Sufis in Egypt in support of President Husnī Mubārak has raised questions about the Sufi doctrines in Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, April 24, 2005
Whatever the topic of discussion was with one Islamist group or another, and of whatever inclination it may be; the reference is always the Brotherhood and its ideology. This unanimity includes those who passed through the organization’s branches in Syria, Jordan, Egypt etc.; or those who ‘...
Date of source: Saturday, December 29, 2001 to Tuesday, January 1, 2002
The article raises the question of how a new generation of terrorists can be prevented. The first step is to keep an eye open on what is going on inside the universities. During the 1970s universities were like the nursery where terrorists were brought up. The second step is to extend the...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 19, 2001
Montasser Al-Zayat mentioned that Ayman Al-Zawahri and Usama bin Laden would commit suicide, if they felt that they would be arrested. He stresses that they have the shari’a-related sources that justify committing suicide in the case of fear of being captured and facing pressures to divulge...
Date of source: Sunday, December 23, 2001
The author believes that the Bin Laden videotape is a naïve story and that any TV or movie director can fabricate a thousand tapes like it. He expressed his hope that this videotape will not be the reason to stop searching for the real criminals, who have the greatest interest in causing the clash...
Date of source: Monday, December 24, 2001
Francis Fukuyama wrote an article in the Arabic edition of Newsweek. In that article he analyzed the current events in light of the relationship between the West and Muslim world. He considered Islamic fundamentalism an enemy to the West worse than communism. He also said that the struggle was...
Date of source: Saturday, December 15, 2001 to Friday, December 21, 2001
The article gives an overview of the life of terrorist Muhammad Abul-Saud. He is an example of the double agent. The Pentagon and the CIA sent him to Afghanistan in order to collect information about the Mujahideen there. His mission was to supervise the fighting operations against the Soviet...
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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.