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Date of source: Sunday, December 31, 2006
‘Ādil Jindī sheds light on Egyptian statesmen’s ‘perplexing’ statements concerning the second article of the Egyptian Constitution, which designates the principles of the Islamic Sharī‘ah as the main source of legislation. The author discusses the impact of this article on the political situation...
Date of source: Sunday, December 17, 2006
The author presents Girard’s proposal that the idea
of peace achieved by scapegoating in not lasting, nor it is ethical. Girard discusses the Judeo-Christian
scriptures [JCS] to prove his hypothesis.
Date of source: Sunday, December 10, 2006
The
writer presents the second part of a hypothesis by American thinker and philosopher, René Girard. He talks about
Girard’s insights about the mechanism of sacrificing the scapegoat on which rests the equilibrium of
societies.
Date of source: Sunday, December 3, 2006
The author presents the hypothesis of American thinker and philosopher, René Girard, about violence to explain the reasons behind violence in the world now. He says that his theory of 'Mimetic desire' interprets all the events and behaviors around us.
Date of source: Sunday, December 3, 2006
Grief still hangs over the village of Dayr al- Barshā despite the passage of more than one month since the brutal killings involving two related Christian families over agricultural property.
Date of source: Sunday, September 17, 2006
The fifth anniversary of 9/11 was a strong reminder of the continued war declared by Islamism against the world, and especially the “infidel West.” This article approaches some of the many questions that that have been raised by the war.
Date of source: Monday, August 28, 2006
The author of the article, ‘Ādil Jindī, discusses excerpts from speeches by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in which he urged his people to prepare themselves for the return of the Mahdī. Jindī quotes the speaker of the Iranian Majlis, Mahdī Karrubi, as saying that in preparation for the...
Date of source: Sunday, July 16, 2006
The author cites some examples of news reports to do with Muslims and Christians in
various places
around the world and refers to a study that affirmed a "correlation" between schizophrenia –
blamed by some
officials for Muslim attacks on Christians – and a parasite called toxoplasma gondii...
Date of source: Sunday, June 4, 2006
A controversial article on the growing Islamization of Egypt and the effect this has on the Coptic community.
Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2006
The author argues that Islamists use democracy as a Trojan horse until they reach power, when they then start another strategy which the author calls "the terrorizing of democracy", applying a version of autocracy under Islamist ideologies.
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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.