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Date of source: Saturday, November 17, 2001 to Friday, November 23, 2001
The book "The New Crusader War" mentioned a fatwa to the effect that if the murderer of the innocent people in America is a Muslim, he has to pay half the diyya [compensation money] to the families of murdered Muslims and nothing more. Usama Bin Laden expressed the same opinion when he was asked...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 13, 2001
The author speaks about the absent role of the Islamic religious institution and gives his perception of the role it should play. He believes that the Islamic religious institution is not able to spread an awareness of Islam in the West, which believes Islam to be the new enemy of western...
Date of source: Sunday, November 11, 2001
A Pakistani journalist interviewed Usama Bin Laden who said that if America used chemical or nuclear weapons against his group, they may retort with chemical and nuclear weapons. He added that the Pakistani president would be punished by the Pakistani people and Allah for cooperating with America.
Date of source: Thursday, November 8, 2001
The United States added the Muslim Brotherhood to its war against terrorism. On the other hand, Italy approved an American request to suspend two of the main important historical leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Date of source: Saturday, November 10, 2001 to Friday, November 16, 2001
Dr. ’Ebada Kahilah, professor of Islamic history, says that the most brutal assassinations and suicide missions are those performed on a religious basis. In Islamic history there are different periods of assassination. Hassan Al-Sabbah was the first to form a group, in Islamic history, to use...
Date of source: Saturday, November 10, 2001 to Friday, November 16, 2001
Dr. Rifa’at Al-Said, the general secretary of the Tagammu opposition party, believes that Islamizing politics is the essence of terrorism and that the Muslim Brotherhood were the first to use terrorism. He stresses that that Islam is not a fertile ground for radical thoughts as some people claim.
Date of source: Friday, November 9, 2001
Mohammed Al-Sharqawi, who represents the Islamic community in the British House of Lords, pointed out that the different mass media [in Britain] are keen on distorting the image of Islam and Muslims because most of them are owned by Jews. After the attacks of September 11, the media intentionally...
Date of source: Friday, November 9, 2001
The statements given and the attitudes adopted by senior American officials and European leaders after Bush’s crusade statement indicated that there were attempts to give the attacks against Afghanistan the dimension of a crusade-in the religious sense- against Islamic terrorism-something in the...
Date of source: Saturday, November 10, 2001 to Friday, November 16, 2001
The leaders of the Zionist and American-Jewish organizations admitted their worries over the increasing power and activities of Islamic organizations in the US. More important and dangerous now is the admission of such restrictive pro-Israeli organizations of being the ones behind the strong media...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 7, 2001
When the Islamic and Arabic media deal with the attacks of September 11 and its consequences as an Islamic war against western-Christians and say Muslims must be supported, the ordinary Christian finds himself in a denominational quandary. He asks himself if it is a conflict between Islam and...
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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.