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Date of source: Sunday, June 6, 2004
As an Iranian now living in a liberal democracy, I would like to explain why Islam and democracy are essentially incompatible. Democracy is based on one fundamental principle: equality. The idea of equality is unacceptable to Islam. For the non-believer cannot be the equal of the believer. Even...
Date of source: Saturday, April 23, 2005
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs requested the opinion of the Azhar pertaining to cloning. It is expected that the United Nations will discuss the issue next September. Religiously, it is acceptable to grow organs for medical purposes. But it is forbidden to clone a full human being from which an...
Date of source: Monday, April 18, 2005
Did the Grand Imam of the Azhar, Sheikh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, give the green light to US
Christian organizations to practice the freedom to Evangelize in Egypt and the Muslim world?
Date of source: Friday, April 8, 2005
Grand
Imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, referred a controversial fatwa to the Islamic Research
Institute. This took place after Islamic activist Tāriq Ramadān, (the grandson of Shaykh Hasan al-Bannā, the
founder of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood group), called for the cessation of...
Date of source: Friday, April 8, 2005
With regard to the Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) between the Egyptian Ministry of Awqāf and its Saudi counterpart: Fighting fundamentalism and
terrorism is indirectly achieved by showing the moderate core of the religion. Cooperation with the Saudis can be based on
the common denominators...
Date of source: Thursday, March 31, 2005
Non-stop explanation of the facts of Islam and its tolerant teachings has to be extended to other nations through a line dissociating the faith from the misconducts of some Muslims, said Muhammad ‘Abd al-Fadīl al- Qousī, the deputy president of the Azhar University, in an interview.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 5, 2005
In
his book Features of Despotism, cAbd al-Rahman al-Kawākibī, who was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1854 and died in Egypt
in 1902, defines despotism as an epithet of a government that has absolute limitless powers that stops at no law and respects
no voice of its people. Kawākibī views that Islam,...
Date of source: Saturday, March 26, 2005
Muslims have to admit that they
themselves treat Islam unfairly, rather than accuse the West of offending Islam. Muslims have never let their voices be heard
nor assumed their responsibility in explaining and defending Islam.
London university professor Fred Halliday defends
Islam, but also...
Date of source: Saturday, March 26, 2005
Muhammad Ra’fat
‘Uthmān, the rapporteur of the fiqh [Islamic jurisprudence] Research Committee at the Islamic Research Academy, issued a
fatwa rendering halāl [permissible] the use of genetic engineering technologies to determine the sex of the fetus.
Date of source: Friday, March 18, 2005
Islam has provided that the relationship between the different parties be one of balance, in other words justice and middle position as God said “Thus We have appointed you a middle nation, that ye may be witnesses against mankind, and that the messenger may be a witness against you” [The Meaning...
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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.