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Date of source: Saturday, December 8, 2001 to Friday, December 14, 2001
Knowledge is essential to understand religion and religion is useless without it. Most Muslims do not pay much attention to this fact. Islam is a simple religion and therefore it is the religion of the world and humanity. If people stay simple they will find themselves part of the world and...
Date of source: Monday, December 3, 2001
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the Brotherhood’s leaders affirmed that the group was calling for dialogue and not for confrontation. He called the government to dialogue and cooperation in order to face the challenges of the biased...
Date of source: Thursday, November 29, 2001
The author believes that poverty, ignorance and political oppression are not the real reasons behind terrorism. Terrorism grows up in societies where a dogmatic culture prevails. There are satellite channels that promote terrorist ideas and host religious analysts to justify what they preach....
Date of source: Sunday, December 2, 2001
In this article Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi speaks about Islam and secularism, the weakness and disunity among Muslims, the Muslims’ aggression towards the West, the violence of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya and the responsibility of the preachers, thinkers and the governments towards correcting the...
Date of source: Friday, November 30, 2001
The Mufti of Egypt affirmed that savage practices against innocent civilians and captives in Palestine and Afghanistan are contrary to the teachings of Islam. He said that the events that are taking place in Palestine and Afghanistan are happening because of the weakness and separations between...
Date of source: Friday, November 30, 2001
A discussion program broadcast by CNN discussed the issue of Muslims in America, the problems they face and how to solve them. In the program were a Christian priest, a Jewish Rabbi and an American-Muslim Imam. Everybody agrees that American-Muslims rejected terrorism and made it clear to the...
Date of source: Friday, November 30, 2001
The Minister of Waqfs [endowments] and three prominent Egyptian thinkers stressed that Islamic civilization cannot clash with the Western civilization, as Islam forbids struggle between religions and civilizations. The minister said that Islam welcomed dialogue and brotherhood with all followers...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 27, 2001
Dr. Ali Al-Samaan said that the events of September 11 made inter-religious dialogue inevitable. The ADIC organization is now getting prepared for a conference entitled "The Crusades or Dialogue." He added that the ADIC was against imposing politics on dialogue.
Date of source: Sunday, December 2, 2001
The Dialogue of Civilizations conference, organized by the Arab League, provided the opportunity to discuss new practical ideas and suggestions in order to help the process of dialogue between Islam and the West. Still, there is a problem concerning how to turn such suggestions into practical...
Date of source: Friday, November 30, 2001
The president of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the People’s Assembly affirmed the importance of changing the Arabic discourse for a better understanding of the other [the West]. He said that there is an Arabic-Islamic revival that should be turned into an active civilizing power. He added that...
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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.