Date of source: Thursday, October 12, 2006
Mijāhid Khalaf
interviews the Islamic thinker Zaghlūl al-Najjār,
who discusses the West’s misperceptions of Islam.
Date of source: Friday, October 13, 2006
Views of Muslim scholars differ over whether to accept the so-called "apology" of Pope Benedict for the remarks he made about Islam a few weeks ago. Nearly 38 Muslim scholars and leaders sent a letter to the pope to indicate their appreciation of the pope’s expression of regret and his affirmation...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 11, 2006
On
Friday, Danish television aired an amateur video showing young members of the anti-immigrant Danish
People’s
Party taking part in a competition to draw cartoons ridiculing the prophet, one year after
the publication
of the "offensive" cartoons by the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten. In an...
Date of source: Monday, October 9, 2006
A supplement published by the mouthpiece of the Ghad
Party, al-Ghad newspaper,
entitled "The worst 10 figure in Islamic history," has provoked strong
public reaction and led Islamic lawyer,
Mamdūh Ismā‘īl, to sue the newspaper. The
list of names included some of the
prophet’s companions and ‘...
Date of source: Monday, August 25, 2008
After months of conflicts, the Abū Fānā crisis has been put to an end. The decisions taken by the reconcilliation committee were approved by the governmental institutions concerned and the cornerstone was put in place in the fence around the monastery.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 3, 2006
The
Roman Catholic Church and the BBC are involved in a
heated debate over a documentary program, which accused Pope
Benedict XVI of encouraging secrecy in dealing
with cases of clergy sexually abusing children, while he was a
cardinal. The Most Reverend Vincent Nichols,
the Archbishop of...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Egyptian newspapers present mixed reactions to Pope Benedict’s "apology" for comments he made earlier
this
month on Islam and the Prophet Muhammad. In light of the already tense atmosphere in the Muslim world,
a Berlin
opera company canceled Mozart’s ’Idomeneo’ for fear of protest over...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Angry reactions to Pope
Benedict’s remarks on Islam and the Prophet
Muhammad continued for a second week. Some Muslim figures,
including Iranian President Ahmadinejad and
Malaysian Prime Minister ‘Abd Allāh Ahmad
Badawī, have accepted the pope’s regret at the
furious reactions to his remarks...
Date of source: Saturday, September 23, 2006
The review deals with varied opinions about Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks
considered offensive in Muslim and
Arab countries amidst calls to expel the papal nuncio in Egypt and put the
interfaith dialogue with the
Vatican on the back burner.
Date of source: Friday, September 22, 2006
The review considers a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and the
ambassadors of Muslim
and Arab nations to the Holy See, in which the pontiff affirmed his respect for all
religions, particularly
Islam, and called for continuing the Muslim-Christian dialogue. He described this as of
vital...