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Date of source: Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Iqbal Baraka, the editor-in-chief of the Hawaa magazine, bring us back in her book about hejab [veil covering women’s hair] to the very beginnings of the practice, saying, “The Assyrians in Iraq were the first to impose the hejab on women.”
Date of source: Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Women, in the eyes of Islam, are not men’s adversaries, but rather they are complementary to men just like men are complementary to women. Accordingly, it is not acceptable by any means to have women’s rights gnawed at in favor of men.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 24, 2004
A veiled French woman is running for a parliamentary seat that is now vacant after the death of an MP from the Union for Political Movement (UMP) and if matters went along well, she could be the first veiled woman in the history of the French National Assembly.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 30, 2004
It is a television program called Muwagahat [confrontations] on Iqra’ satellite channel presented by Mr. Muhammad Barakat. In all episodes I watched, the host interviewed retired veiled actresses and looked up to them as if they were promised heaven.
- See art. 24: status of women in Islam.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 10, 2002
Different reports on whether or not Christians in Islamic countries are persecuted: 30.1 Hermann Schalück OFM Persecuted Christians? Introduction 30.2 Johannes Müller SJ Religious Freedom - Aspirations and Reality Reflections on the Complex Relationship between Christians and Muslims 30.3 Theodor...
Date of source: Monday, October 21, 2002
Human rights is the most controversial subject in the dialogue between Islam and the West. Muslims criticize many human rights [violations] in the West. Likewise, the West criticizes the human rights of Islamic countries. Each one evaluates the human rights of the other from its own point of view.
Date of source: Saturday, October 12, 2002 to Friday, October 18, 2002
The tradition of the niqab has become widespread in Egypt, especially in poor quarters. The niqab is an inherited tradition and not a pillar of the Islamic faith. It was transmitted to Egypt from some Islamic and Arabic countries that live by the traditions of nomadic life and not by the orders of...
Date of source: Monday, October 7, 2002
The mother of a 13-year-old Dutch girl claims that eight Turkish persons raped her daughter because she refused to go out with them for a ride and preferred to accompany some Moroccan friends.
Date of source: Saturday, August 31, 2002 to Friday, September 6, 2002
A professor at Cairo University expresses her sadness at the fact that hijab became widespread among female students. She believes that there are unannounced, but highly organized, institutions that brainwash those girls in order to make them wear the hijab or niqab [face cover].
Date of source: Saturday, August 17, 2002 to Friday, August 23, 2002
Microbus drivers force their passengers to listen to audio-tapes that contain extremist religious material, while passengers have no right to raise any objection against their contents or their loud volume. If any passenger dares to raise any objection, he would be accused of unbelief for refusing...
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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.