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Date of source: Saturday, November 6, 2004
France gives full freedom to its citizens to believe in whatever they want. Thousands of French chose Islam and no one has ever asked them why.
The official number of French Muslims is 50,000 but the unofficial could be double this figure, considering that those unofficially announced Muslims did...
Date of source: Saturday, November 6, 2004
The filmmaker of a film that criticizes violence against women in Islamic societies was shot dead by a 26-year-old Muslim man who is a dual national of Morocco and Holland. Theo Van Gogh has raised much controversy with his articles and films that express his controversial opinions about Islam...
Date of source: Saturday, November 6, 2004
Minister of Information Dr. Mamdouh Al-Beltagui requested that “A girl from Shubra” [Bent Min Shubra] be screened before the Church and the Azhar before being aired on Egyptian television. We say that the decision of the minister is unwise. Nothing in the television series raises the necessity of...
Date of source: Saturday, November 6, 2004
In less than two months I have heard the talk about the jizya [tax on non-Muslims under a Muslim government] taking place twice from our honorable scholars.
I tried as much as I could to avoid involvement in this thorny issue but finally I realized that the return of this sectarian undertone to...
Date of source: Saturday, October 30, 2004
Some Christian fatwas are the same as those issued by extremist Muslims. In fact, such fatwas cause sectarian strife among Christian denominations themselves. Eleven priests attacked the Egyptian movie Baheb El-Sima [I love Cinema] and accused it of insulting Christianity. This, in turn, led some...
Date of source: Saturday, October 30, 2004
Few years ago, many extremist Israeli rabbis issued a fatwa to kill their Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. They claimed that Rabin killed their religious dream with his attempts to make peace with the Palestinians. Today, other extremist rabbis are threatening to kill Ariel Sharon if he should order...
Date of source: Saturday, October 30, 2004
The reciter of the Qur’an, sheikh Fathi Al-Miligy, is one of those who are deeply affected by the genius Mustafa Isma’il, following in his footsteps until he has indeed become one of the most famous Egyptian reciters of the Holy Qur’an.
- See art. 15: Rev. Akram Lama'i speaks about image of Islam...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Today, many unqualified sheikhs are issuing fatwas [Muslim religious opinions or decrees given by a Mufti or another Muslim scholar. Based on Islamic Law and logical measurement] for purely personal purposes. They sometimes even issue contradictory fatwas that really reflect their deep ignorance.
Date of source: Sunday, October 10, 2004
When a major newspaper splashes a headline with a certain color under the word exclusive, it announces for the readers that no other newspaper has ever managed to get this scoop.
That is what our top newspaper did when its exclusive headlines and sub-headings read that a prominent Islamic...
Date of source: Saturday, October 23, 2004
The European authorities fear that imams of Arab origin can poison the European communities with their ideas and encourage terror. Accordingly many European countries were encouraged to establish institutes to graduate a European generation of imams.
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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.