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Date of source: Friday, October 8, 2004
Despite being founded only nine months ago, many people have started to bring charges against The National Council for Human Rights. We went to Dr. Botros Ghali, head of the NCHR, to answer people’s inquiries about the prospective role of the Council. In fact, Dr. Botros Ghali was so frank and...
Date of source: Saturday, October 2, 2004
Outside Iraq many Muslim scholars and members of the Muslim Brotherhood expressed their wholehearted support of what they called ‘the Iraqi resistance’ through satellite TVs in the Gulf countries and the heavily circulated Islamized newspapers. They wrote about their viewpoints that go in line with...
Date of source: Saturday, October 2, 2004
We can rest assured to consider the recent fatwa issued by the Egyptian Dar Al-Ifta [Fatwa-giving House] rendering haram [unlawful according to Shari’a] the practice of the yoga sport as one of the most serious during the past few years. This fatwa inspires an attitude of close-mindedness towards...
Date of source: Saturday, October 2, 2004
Dr. Amna Nosseir, a professor of jurisprudence at Al-Azhar University, has been calling on the Dar Al-Ifta to set up a council involving all specializations in all walks of life to thoroughly study public affairs of concern to major issues in society like organ transplants, bank profits and...
Date of source: Saturday, October 2, 2004
Has piety become a means of profit-making? Or have some of us contracted psycho-social diseases that render our manners ostentatious and showy? In some five-star hotels now there are so-called Islamic wedding parties, the cost of which for 100 invited persons in all cases exceeds LE 100,000. The...
Date of source: Saturday, October 2, 2004
Dr. Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq was able to embarrass his opponents when he presented the statement issued by the Egyptian Grand Mufti, Dr. Ali Goma’a, in which he emphasized that unifying the Azan is lawful according to Shari’a and that the great four Muslim imams permitted performing a singe Azan for a...
Date of source: Saturday, October 2, 2004
I wish that you can offer me a contemporarily definition of the word “ Jihad,” that doesn’t contradict with Shari’a and meanwhile, takes the current state of affairs into consideration, so that the Egyptians would lead a better life. There are sheikhs who stir up frictions and add fuel to the fire...
Date of source: Saturday, October 2, 2004
Noah, Lot, Joseph, Jacob, Job, David, Solomon, Moses and Jesus are all messengers of God. So why then should we deny their followers and dub them as kufar [unbelievers] just because the vocabulary of their creeds differs from that of Islam?
Date of source: Saturday, September 18, 2004
The Turkish government pulled back the draft law criminalizing adultery and penalizing adulterers with prison. Turkish media outlets, feminine organizations and a number of government officials launched a fierce campaign to drop the proposal. It seems that political and media pressures managed to...
Date of source: Friday, September 24, 2004
I practiced my natural right in examining a historical issue that is open to doubt. This issue [the Holocaust] was disproved by the Minister of Information himself when he was the head of the information authority which published in the 1992 an outstanding translation of the well-known book "The...
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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.