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Date of source: Sunday, March 5, 2006
This French author writes about the global cartoon crisis of 2006. He holds that in a democracy, freedom of the press is total. For the government to interfere is out of the question. However, he adds that the legal system can always be used by anyone who feels that legitimate rights have been...
Date of source: Saturday, March 4, 2006
Many argue that President Mubārak’s decision to abolish the law allowing the imprisonment of journalists in Egypt is a positive step on the way to securing freedom of the press and freedom of expression.
Date of source: Saturday, March 4, 2006
The author writes on the punishment received by the British historian David Irving and London Mayor Ken Livingstone for offending Jews, saying that this proves that freedom of expression in Europe is not as absolute as one might imagine.
Date of source: Friday, March 3, 2006
Views in the Muslim world have differed over the proper reaction to the controversial Danish cartoons. However, most Muslim scholars have stressed the need for drawing clear lines between freedom of expression and irresponsible freedom that insults religious beliefs.
Date of source: Friday, March 3, 2006
The Arab Medical Syndicate has failed to agree to a covenant to protect religions, after disagreeing on specific items and terminology, including what is meant by the word ‘religions’.
Date of source: Friday, March 3, 2006
Al-Wafd interviews an Austrian convert to Islam, Margarete Mackrete [Reviewer: Name not verified], who expresses her great happiness and satisfaction with her conversion.
Date of source: Thursday, December 25, 2003
The author continues his series of articles about religious groups in the US. In this article he elaborates on Muslims in the US. Muslims started to arrive in the United States in the late 1800s when young people, most of whom were from the Middle East, emigrated to US with the aim of making money...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 30, 2003
The International Zionist Agency warns the Jews in the world in general, and the Jews in Europe in particular, against having relations with Muslims, even if those Muslims are moderate. The Agency thinks that there is an unbridgeable ideological gap between Jews and Muslims, and that Muslims who...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 30, 2003
The author comments on the speech given by a retired Israeli Mossad officer called Avi Lipkin, who gave many lectures in Switzerland and many other European countries under the auspices of a suspicious Christian organization called "The Friends of Israel." Lipkin started his latest lecture in Bern...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 31, 2003
Al-Muhajeroun [the immigrants], the most important Fundamentalist movement in Britain, will hold a number of Islamic conferences in the beginning of the year 2004. The leader of the movement, Omar Bakri, stated that the new conference entitled "In Confrontation with Former Fundamentalist Thought,"...
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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.