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Date of source: Saturday, May 8, 2004
About 12 imams have been arrested and deported from France since June 2003 because of their extremist ideologies. According to official statistics in France, there are about 32 mosques and zawya [small mosque attached to buildings] under the control of fundamentalist groups [in France] with an...
Date of source: Monday, June 14, 2004
Next Saturday, Egypt will witness an event that radiates national unity. Patriarch of Alexandria, Pope Shenouda, Sheikh of Azhar, Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, and Mufti of the Republic, Ali Goma’a will come together in a hall at the Police Academy in Abassiya to attend the discussion of Dr. Nabil...
Date of source: Monday, June 21, 2004
Al-Usbua received documents that confirmed that eliminating the Azhar institutes comes as part of the plan to Americanize the religious discourse in Egypt and the Arab World. Washington believes that the religious educational curricula instill hatred against all things American. For the U.S. to...
Date of source: Monday, June 28, 2004
In spite of the large presence at the discussion of the dissertation of Dr. Nabil Luqa Bebawi on the “Rights and duties of non-Muslims in Islamic states, the mufti Dr. Ali Goma’a missed an important point. Dr. Bebawi said that jizya was not imposed on all non-Muslims in all times, confirming that...
Date of source: Monday, June 28, 2004
The first strike Muslims received was the issuing of the first edition of the book ِAl-Forqan Al-Haq [The true Qur’an in the United States and distributing copies of it in occupied Palestine. The last strike was directed to Egypt after the American Administration demanded printing the new...
Date of source: Monday, July 5, 2004
Two months ago, the Council of Governors at the Egyptian government issued a decision to stop building new Azharite Institutes, stop building civil mosques and demolish mosques built without license. This caused angry reactions among the Egyptian public. Eighteen deputies at the People’s Assembly,...
Date of source: Monday, July 19, 2004
Last Friday night, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom arrived in Cairo in a secretive atmosphere. The Commission delivered a brief statement concerning the objectives of the visit, which takes place between July 16 and July 23. The Commission is paving the way for the...
Date of source: Monday, August 9, 2004
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal
Rights organized, last Thursday, a press conference in which it announced the release of a report
titled “Freedom of belief and Shiites’ issues in Egypt.” This report describes the crackdowns on
Shiites in Egypt from December 2003 till March 2004.The report...
Date of source: Monday, April 18, 2005
Did the Grand Imam of the Azhar, Sheikh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, give the green light to US
Christian organizations to practice the freedom to Evangelize in Egypt and the Muslim world?
Date of source: Monday, April 4, 2005
Tāriq Ramadān, grandson of late Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Bannā, has urged freezing capital
punishment in Islam like stoning and decapitation.
Ramadān also urged the mobilization of Muslims worldwide to ask
their governments to stop applying the hudoud, alleging the application...
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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.