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Date of source: Tuesday, September 21, 2004
An Italian woman who had embraced Islam, changed her name into Fatma and took the veil, was forced to pay Euro 850 for wearing a niqab. The mayor of the city where the women lives expressed his anger because the woman refused to take off the niqab in order to prove her identity. "The law should be...
Date of source: Thursday, September 16, 2004
The office of the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the state of Florida reported that the University of Sawth Florida, one of the biggest American universities, allowed a Muslim student in the university's basketball team to play the games while in veil and long sport costumes.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 21, 2004
The German government banned an Islamic conference because it will host what it regarded terrorists. The German government can no longer tolerate that Arabs and Muslims enjoy the freedom of expression because of the misconducts attributed to them. Germany, that used to be the number one safe harbor...
Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 2004
German Minister of Interior Otto Schily declared yesterday that he would do everything possible to see that the first Arab, Islamic conference does not take place. Berlin Interior Minister Erhart Koerting stated that the authorities of Berlin consider the possibility of banning the congress,...
Date of source: Friday, September 17, 2004
The Danish Ministry of Education approved the teaching of the Holy Qur'an in Danish high schools. According the Danish news agency, the ministry's decision will be applied starting from the next school year. Students will study the Holy Qur'an besides Christianity.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 2004
Dr. Ahmed Kamal Abu Al-Magd, former Egyptian Minister of Information and the general commissioner for dialogue of civilizations at the Arab League, called for applying the ethical values preached by the three heavenly [monotheistic] religions: Islam, Christianity and Judaism, in order to oppose...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 2004
Dr. Mustafa Ceric, the renowned Bosnian thinker and the Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina, won the UNESCO peace prize for this year shared with the French Cardinal [Roger] Etchegaray in recognition of his efforts to make peace in Bosnia and the world. Dr. Ceric asked Bosnian soldiers during the...
Date of source: Sunday, September 12, 2004
Omar Bakri, the leader of the group of Al-Muhajeroun [the emigrants] announced that the British police cancelled a conference organized by [Muslim] fundamentalists to celebrate the third anniversary of the 11 September attacks just a few hours before its scheduled time.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 14, 2004
The vast majority [of Muslims] believes that it is not Al-Qa’ida that carried out the bombings of September 11. Many believe that the Zionist movement, the American intelligence or neo-conservatives may be behind these attacks. This way of apprehending events indicates that there is a collective...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 2004
These days, Arab newspapers are full of commentaries putting the blame on Muslims for terrorism and others practiced self-flagellation and self-hatred to the extent that they claimed the history of Muslims is a history of oppression, tyranny and baseness. No one asks himself whether what is...
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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.