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Date of source: Sunday, March 5, 2006
The author is writing about the Danish cartoon crisis. He says that respect is not a right and adds that freedom of speech depends on people accepting criticism, even where it is quite clearly disrespectful, and that this is a price well worth paying for freedom of speech. He holds that freedom of...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 31, 2003
The author believes that America and its allies are fabricating false accusations against Muslims and attributing all kind of defects to them untruthfully. He tries to explain the reasons behind the fierce attack America launches against Arabs and Muslims
Date of source: Sunday, December 21, 2003
Last Monday, the activities of the conference “Islam and the West in a Changing World” were concluded in Sudan. The conference aimed at presenting an Islamic view of the relationship with the West under the slogan “Interaction without melting and distinction without introversion." A large number...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 10, 2003
During the last year, 20 people and institutions in Boston received similar letters from Fleet Bank, in which they were notified that the Bank had closed their accounts. Fleet Bank, which belongs to the Fleet Boston Financial Corporation, gave no reasons for closing the accounts of these clients....
Date of source: Saturday, December 13, 2003
Islam encourages ethics and Islamic texts state that some non-Muslims are people of ethics. Some events show that Muslims are not the only people who have ethics. There are some non-Muslims whose behavior is more ethical than some people who claim that they are Muslims. The opposing attitude of...
Date of source: Saturday, November 29, 2003 to Friday, December 5, 2003
There is no fashion that produces the amount of controversy, violence and hysteria world-wide that the wearing of the veil by Muslim women does. Iranian women flee overseas in order to take the chador off. In Turkey, the veiled wives of government and party officials are not allowed to attend...
Date of source: Sunday, November 30, 2003
The decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court to admit the right of Feritcha Luiden, a teacher, to take a scarf while doing her work and its statement that the German authorities were wrong when they ordered her suspension produced a wide-ranging debate and deep splits within German...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 26, 2003
The article is an interview with the Dr. Salah Eddin Al-Ga’farawi, head of the Islamic Council in Germany. He comments on the phenomenon of extremism before and after September 11, the conditions of Muslims in Germany and on how much Europeans are today aware of the questions of Arabs and Muslims.
Date of source: Sunday, November 30, 2003
The author reports about a visit she made to France during which she visited the well-known grand mosque in Paris. At the mosque, she was unexpectedly showered with insults. A woman explained to her that there are some extremists who sit at the mosque for the purpose of harassing women. She decided...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 2, 2003
For the last few months, France has been witnessing a cultural and ideological conflict that arises from what we may call renewing the religious discourse. The conflict started when the former French Minister of Interior invented the term “the Islam of France,” which developed to become 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.