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Denmark’s foreign minister calls on Muslims and their leaders around the world to look beyond the big news headlines and the inflammatory rhetoric concerning the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad and points out Denmark’s positive relations with the Arab world.
Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, grand imam of the Azhar, followed the lecture of Archbishop Rowan Williams with a number of comments. I made notes and made this overview which should be seen as a paraphrase of the words of the grand imam.
It is true that Judaism does accept converts. However, Judaism does not seek converts. Indeed, traditional Judaism discourages those who want to convert to Judaism. This is a fundamental difference between the view of Christianity toward non-Christians and Judaism toward non-Jews.
Father Basilius al-Maqārī exaggerated in AWR, 2005, week 16, art. 46, in my opinion, the parallel between Church clericalism and Islamism. Coptic clergy have been politically active but they do not seek power as Islamists do.
The article of ‘Imāra [AWR, 2005, week 14, art. 17] provides correct information about the councils of the Orthodox Church in the seventies and the efforts of the Church to interfere in the civil-secular and political affairs of the Copts.
Madīna al-Nour, situated in the district of al-Zāwiya al-Hamrā’, Cairo. It is one of the typical areas for rural immigration, where a rapid transition of lifestyles and values can be seen. Poverty excludes the inhabitants of Madīna al-Nour from the splendors of jet-set Cairo, but globalization also...
Frequently questions are asked about why this accident had to happen. Was it a punishment of God? Was it a terrorist attack directed against Christians? The author ponders a number of answers given by Christians and Muslims in Egypt as well as questions asked and claims made by Coptic organizations...

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