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Date of source: Saturday, September 21, 2002
When political Islam started, the policy of hijab began, upheld by force. In this terrorist atmosphere, the idea of Islam was merely to cover the hair, even if morality was nude. Qur’anic verses on hijab distinguish between free women and slave women and between chaste women and unchaste women.
Date of source: Saturday, August 17, 2002
The article discusses ten points that show how to move away from Islam as a political ideology, and towards Islam as a religion. Some of these points are positive points that should be followed and others are negative points that should be avoided. These points are truthfulness, totalitarianism,...
Date of source: Saturday, August 10, 2002
As Zionism is not Judaism, political Islam does not represent Islam. Both Zionism and political Islam are political ideologies that have nothing to do with religion. The author refutes the slogans of political Islam, in the hope that this refutation may mark the beginning of the age of...
Date of source: Saturday, August 3, 2002
The article traces the origin of the slogans of political Islamic groups and comments on them. It shows the difference between jihad and killing and explains the true meaning of “Crusades” and “Zionism” and how political Islamic groups served both of them while claiming to fight against them.
Date of source: Saturday, March 9, 2002
Social pressures led to the formation of certain social identifications stressing the concept of fatalism. However, creeds disagree with fatalism, as they call for faith and faith is facultative. Some people say that faith is the only criterion upon which man is rewarded by paradise or punished by...
Date of source: Saturday, February 16, 2002
Religious laws do not determine or command the formation of a nation in a political sense. The concept of political nation, as understood today, is not mentioned in the Qur’an. After the reign of the Orthodox Caliphs, people who wanted power and authority started using Qur’anic verses to find a...
Date of source: Saturday, February 9, 2002
The origin of religion is that it connects humanity with divinity and links humankind with the universe. Religion requires certain rituals. Most people perform those rituals as if they are ends, rather than being a means to an end, which is connecting the human to the divine. Religiosity is not...
Date of source: Saturday, February 2, 2002
The English word “secularism” was incorrectly translated into Arabic as “ilmaniya” while it should be “almaniya.” The first is derived from “ilm” which means “science” and thus indicated a contradiction between religion and science –which is not true. The latter is derived from “alam” which means “...
Date of source: Saturday, January 26, 2002
[Rammameen are those who scavenge a living off others.]
Those who embrace political Islam claim that any amendments to their ideology leads to what they call “American Islam.” The establishment of the Muslim Brotherhood marked the beginning of political Islam. The Brotherhood offered America “...
Date of source: Saturday, January 19, 2002
Su’louk [plural sa’aleek] is a word that was used - in pre-Islamic times - to describe marginalized people who belonged to an insignificant tribe or an unimportant village.
Some people have created a form of fiqh called Al-Wilaya wa Al-Bara’a [the submission (to a leader (wali), group, ideology,...
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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.