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Date of source: Monday, December 29, 2003
Kuwaiti Minister of Education Dr. Rashid Al-Hamad announced yesterday that Kuwait is upgrading its school curricula in order to omit any texts that encourage religious extremism.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 31, 2003
Last Christmas Eve, Bashir Toma Elias was shot dead in the center of Basra´s market while he was on his way back home to celebrate Christmas with his five children. Elias´ murder revived Christians´ fear of the growth of religious fanaticism in Southern Iraq, which is inhabited by a...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 30, 2003
The Administrative Court affiliated with the State Council is examining today a complaint filed by Aboud Al-Zomor, former leader of Al-Jihad group, against the Ministry of Interior and Prisons Authority. Al-Zomor demands his release as he has completed served his penalty.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 30, 2003
The fifteen Saudis, who were among the nineteen perpetrators of the attacks of September 11, produced a number of transformations in Saudi Arabia. They even became the subject of a series of American questions, which later turned to Saudi ones. From where did they come? What did they learn? How...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 30, 2003
In an interview with Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Sheikh A´id Qurani said that "sheikhs of takfir" renounced their old thoughts of their own free will and not under any pressure. He believes that the retreat of those sheikhs has delivered a blow to the heart of takfir-based ideology.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 10, 2003
During the last year, 20 people and institutions in Boston received similar letters from Fleet Bank, in which they were notified that the Bank had closed their accounts. Fleet Bank, which belongs to the Fleet Boston Financial Corporation, gave no reasons for closing the accounts of these clients....
Date of source: Saturday, December 13, 2003
The problem of the Islamic awareness vis-à-vis scientific modernity is a great one Christians in Europe went through a similar problem at the end of the 17th century and till the beginning of the 20th century. The author compares between Christians in Europe and Muslims in the sense of how each...
Date of source: Saturday, December 13, 2003
Islam encourages ethics and Islamic texts state that some non-Muslims are people of ethics. Some events show that Muslims are not the only people who have ethics. There are some non-Muslims whose behavior is more ethical than some people who claim that they are Muslims. The opposing attitude of...
Date of source: Sunday, December 14, 2003
The article is an overview of the speeches given in the opening session of the Islamic Institute of Fiqh in Saudi Arabia. The speakers were the deputy of the Prince of Mecca, Saudi Grand Mufti, the Islamic World Association secretary general and the secretary general of the Fiqh Institute. Their...
Date of source: Sunday, December 7, 2003
Bibliotheca Alexandrina declared that it has withdrawn a copy of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” which Jewish bodies consider as anti-Semitic, from the showcase of strange and rare books. Bibliotheca Alexandrina has also withdrawn five other books by Egyptian writers, mainly translations of...
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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.