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Date of source: Tuesday, November 27, 2001
The November 23 article of Al-Musawwar, "Is the West still Dar Kufr," resulted four days later (November 28) in a campaign by the US Copts Association against the use of the word kuffar for Christians. The association claims that calling someone a ’kafir’ [’kafir’ is the singular of ’kufar’] is a...
Date of source: Friday, November 23, 2001
According to Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi, there are three kinds of kufr [unbelief]. There is atheism [elhad], which is a total denial of the existence of the Almighty God. There is polytheism [shirk], which means believing in more than one god. The third kind is the denial of Islam and the message...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 20, 2001
Sheikh Khalid Al-Gindi said that the Islamic telephone line service was halal and that the Sheikh of Azhar said that the service was a good and permissible activity. He added that Amr Khalid was a phenomenon worth studying and that those who criticize him could not criticize a belly dancer.
23. Two Egyptians, a Palestinian and a Syrian are at the head the list of the most wanted of Britain
Date of source: Friday, November 23, 2001
The British government is trying to enforce some restrictive laws with the claim of fighting terrorism. The aim is to detain Arab political refugees who are described as extremist fundamentalists. The most important are Abu Hamza Al-Masri, Omar Bakri, Yasser Al-Serri and Abu Qatada.
Date of source: Saturday, November 17, 2001 to Friday, November 23, 2001
The article gives an overview of the history of Refa’i Ahmed Taha with the Gama’at Al-Islamiya and how he started his relationship with Usama Bin Laden after the many conflicts between him and the Gama’at. The Luxor massacre of 1997 and the initiative of denouncing violence were the main reasons...
Date of source: Saturday, November 17, 2001 to Friday, November 23, 2001
The British authorities discovered that a security company called Sakina was recruiting British Muslim youth and sending them to Chechnya and Afghanistan to participate in Jihad against the Christian West. Therefore they closed the company and arrested its members. The members of Sakina are...
Date of source: Saturday, November 17, 2001 to Friday, November 23, 2001
The book "The New Crusader War" mentioned a fatwa to the effect that if the murderer of the innocent people in America is a Muslim, he has to pay half the diyya [compensation money] to the families of murdered Muslims and nothing more. Usama Bin Laden expressed the same opinion when he was asked...
Date of source: Sunday, November 18, 2001
The Egyptian Supreme Military Court will start the trial of 94 fundamentalists charged with joining a secret organization which aims to overthrow the established regime. They possessed weapons and explosives claiming to support the Palestinian intifada and the Mujahideen in Chechnya.
Date of source: Sunday, November 11, 2001
Al-Arabi received many comments on its article "Al-Awa’s fatwa ignites controversy in Al-Wasat" published on November 4. The deputy of Al-Wasat Party said that the article attributed to him things he did not say. The article also claimed that Mamdouh Ismail and Gamal Sultan are members of Al-Wasat...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 28, 2001
Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradwi was harshly attacked because of his fatwa allowing non-Muslim women who have converted to Islam to stay with their non-Muslim husbands. The author believes that ijtihad should suit the spirit of the age and the tolerance of Islam. Otherwise, Muslims will be representing an...
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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.