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Date of source: Tuesday, May 7, 2002
The article looks at the different religious groups in America and discusses the possibility of initiating a global dialogue among moderate religious people. The author´s main purpose of the article is to encourage concerned bodies in the Arab and Islamic world to build bridges for a civilized...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 24, 2002
The Islamic Research Institute decided to ban the circulation of Ayman Al-Zawahri´s book "Knights Under the Flag of the Prophet." The Institute said that the book stirs up the people against their rulers and presents false interpretation of some Qur´anic texts to cause strife and disorder...
Date of source: Sunday, April 28, 2002
Al-Arabi wrote that the Brotherhood did not participate in the demonstrations against the events in Palestine. Yet, other papers claimed that the Brotherhood was behind most of the demonstrations. Brotherhood members explained that the Palestinian issue is always at the top of their agenda and...
Date of source: Sunday, April 28, 2002
Many contradictory fatwas concerning the legality of women carrying out martyrdom operations were issued. Some scholars believe that women are not allowed to explode themselves because the shameful parts of their bodies would be uncovered and also because they would not be accompanied by a mahram...
Date of source: Saturday, May 4, 2002
Because of the criticism in the Egyptian press on Coptic migrants we continued our overview of contributions on the Copts Daily Digest (see for the first overview RNSAW, 2002, week 14A, art. 11). Many responses in the Digest are strongly polarizing.
Date of source: Sunday, April 21, 2002
Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi called for more demonstrations against the Israeli practices in Palestine, as demonstrations are a form of jihad. He added that no ruler has the right to prevent a Muslim from martyrdom or fulfilling the requirements of jihad. The rulers who prevent jihad are beyond doubt...
Date of source: Saturday, April 13, 2002
Robin Wright, the head of diplomatic correspondents in the Los Angeles Times, wrote the book of “The Wrath of Militant Islam” in which she analyzed the September 11 attacks. She wrote that Islam is the most tolerant religion and that both America and Ben Laden distorted the meaning of jihad in...
Date of source: Saturday, April 13, 2002 to Friday, April 19, 2002
The administration of the University of Alexandria told its students to notify the security bodies before starting any demonstration to express their objection to the events taking place in Palestine, so that security bodies may be able to secure them. However the Brotherhood, via cell phones,...
Date of source: Saturday, April 20, 2002
Osama Salama´s words are sharp, full of anger about Coptic emigrants. People in Egypt, other Arab countries, Europe, the US and Israel itself protest against the Israeli atrocities against the Palestinians. But where are the voices of the emigrant Copts and Arab Christians? We checked the Copts...
Date of source: Saturday, March 16, 2002 to Friday, March 22, 2002
The inclusion of some chapters on Islam in the educational program of schools in California caused anger among parents. They were dismayed because they saw that teaching their children about Islam contradicts all what they raised their children upon. They disapproved of it because they disagree...
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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.