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: Tuesday, November 27, 2001
The idea of a conflict between civilizations is not a Western invention, but almost an Islamic-Arabic one. Arabs believe the illusion that they are a threat to the West and that the West keeps conspiring against them. They always try to see others as responsible for their failures. Such feelings...
Date of source: Saturday, December 1, 2001
The attacks of September 11 disclosed the existence of a historical misunderstanding between Islam and the West. The image of Islam in the eyes of the West is not good and likewise the image of the West in the eyes of Islam. For the two images to be corrected, a cultural mediator who understands...
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: Thursday, November 15, 2001 to Wednesday, November 21, 2001
Could the current US-led coalition war against Afghanistan result in tensions between Egypt’s two major religions? In Lebanon the split between Christians and Muslims has widened as each has taken the opposite side. Egypt, however, has experienced nothing of this kind.
Date of source: Friday, November 23, 2001
The investigations conducted with the members of Al-Wa’ad organization revealed that they were planning to attack the building of the Egyptian Television and to assassinate some American pilots living in Heliopolis district, some ministers and other prominent Egyptian figures.
Date of source: Friday, November 23, 2001
American authorities imposed restrictive traveling procedures on the do’a [preachers] the Azhar sends to the USA to preach and spread Islam by joining the Islamic centres there.
Date of source: Thursday, November 15, 2001
Associated sources in London declared that the Israeli intelligence service Mossad passed around the news about Damascus handing over Refa’i Ahmed Taha, the military leader of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya, to Cairo. The leader of the Ansar Al-Shari’a organization in London said that the negotiations...
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 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...