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Date of source: Saturday, April 29, 2000 to Friday, May 5, 2000
Despite the unsatisfactory level of female graduates from religious institutes, the Ministry of Religious Affairs has given them legitimacy, as they can get a license to teach Islam and practice the Da’awa once the security authorities give their approval. These female graduates became accepted as...
Date of source: Saturday, April 22, 2000 to Friday, April 28, 2000
Does Christianity despise women? Does it see her as a second-class person and a dirty creature that does not have the rights of men? Many of the beliefs concerning women that are thought to be religious are actually a result of the effect of society and its habits and rituals. Christian women...
Date of source: Saturday, April 22, 2000 to Friday, April 28, 2000
This woman opened the door in the passageway of the courts of personal status, for tortured Christian women to get a divorce. F.F., a Coptic businesswoman, took a short cut to divorce by asking for the [Islamic] Khula’ law to be applied to her according to the new personal status law, after...
Date of source: Saturday, April 22, 2000 to Friday, April 28, 2000
Who is Omar Abdel Kafi? Is he a preacher or an adventurer? Or is he the saint who made actresses repent, or is he the investor who wants to open a factory in Germany with ten million pounds capital? His followers who have discovered his deceiving, sent us a document dated 6/8/1999, which is a...
Date of source: Saturday, April 22, 2000 to Friday, April 28, 2000
Reaching the main door of the mosque in Ezbat Al-Agouza is almost impossible. The number of girls is far greater than the number of boys. When we asked about the reason for the crowd, the answer was "Sheikh Amr Khaled". Hajja Yasmin - as they call the retired singer Yasmin Al-Khayam - refuses to...
Date of source: Saturday, April 22, 2000 to Friday, April 28, 2000
Calling for Islam is a double-sided weapon if those who are responsible for it do not have enough knowledge to be qualified. Ijtihad is very difficult but nowadays, Islamic preachers are used to penetrating all matters of fiqh and any other matter by advice and giving fatwas. There are conditions...
Date of source: Saturday, April 22, 2000 to Friday, April 28, 2000
Religious fanaticism enters the minds of people through sessions, in which each sheikh, amir [leader of a fanatic group] or preacher claims that the community is sinful and that this must be changed by violence. We have warned in several issues about the religious sessions held by unqualified...
Date of source: Saturday, April 22, 2000 to Friday, April 28, 2000
The awful show of the sheikhs on tapes is still going on. Sheikh Kishk started this in the seventies. They recite only the texts of the Qur’an which speak of sins, and torment in hell. Those who take on the characteristics of preachers without deserving it talk on everything - without adequate...
Date of source: Saturday, April 15, 2000 to Friday, April 21, 2000
In one of the biggest appalling massive suicides in the world, more than one thousand persons lost their lives, due to the religious extremism and abuse of their religious thoughts. Rose Al Youssef warned in this feature of the increasing number of merchants of religion day by day, and the...
Date of source: Saturday, April 15, 2000 to Friday, April 21, 2000
Three warped people intercepted a female student in Kuwait and whipped her and cut her hair because she did not wear the veil [Islamic dress and head cover]. They lately explained their brutal action by declaring that Islam has grown up on the sword’s edge.
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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.