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Date of source: Monday, March 8, 2004
There are women who get into the women’s carriage of the underground and call upon unveiled women to wear the veil. The words of those women may involve insults to the unveiled women. They never take in consideration that some women on board, who are insulted, are Egyptian Christians. Furthermore...
Date of source: Monday, March 15, 2004
The prominent preacher’s wife confirmed that everything that had been said about him is true and that the monaqaba woman [the veil includes coverage of the face] was not making false claims. So his wife prevented him from going outside the house at all, and he could not even go to the mosque to...
Date of source: Monday, March 29, 2004
In the story of the monaqaba woman and the preacher, Sawt Al-Umma, ran a side story about another monaqaba woman, who admitted to her mistake when the sheikh of the widows and divorcées deceived her. I received two messages, which I put in front of you.
1. A message from the friends of the second...
Date of source: Monday, April 12, 2004
Women preachers go onto the metro and say loud do’aa [prayers] and ask women on board to repeat after them. Now, the phenomenon has developed. Now women preachers are giving religious lessons in the metro. • See article 4: Renewal of religious discourse has not been successful for the last 1500...
Date of source: Sunday, April 4, 2004
A criticism of Farida Al-Naqash’s article in Al-Ahali newspaper on “Renewing religious thought.” Farida Al-Naqash wrote a review about a book of Iqbal Baraka who argued that the veil is not a religious duty. The writer stresses that those who believe that the veil is not a religious obligation are...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 6, 2004
Scholars agree that what religion asks of women is to cover all their body except their face and hands. The dress women should wear should not be tight on their body and should not be transparent. This is the dress code that we all agree on today. The Qur’anic verses concerning women’s dress do not...
Date of source: Friday, April 2, 2004
A German [Southern] state of Baden-Wuerttemberg yesterday endorsed a law banning teachers from wearing the veil in public schools, but the same law allows Christian and Jewish symbols. This [law] foretells an outbreak of debate similar to that witnessed in France. The governments of six states want...
Date of source: Monday, April 19, 2004
Muhammad Al-Baz has many stories about ladies who wear the niqab [veil covering the whole of a woman’s face or all except the eyes] and da’iyas [men who calls for Islam.] I agree with you, dear Al-Baz, that many people abuse religion, and I appreciate the efforts you exert in order to expose those...
Date of source: Monday, April 26, 2004
The British Ministry of Interior announced that it would exempt Muslim girls from placing their photos on their new identity cards that the government is seeking to issue in an attempt to try to wipe out the fears of the Muslim community concerning the aim of these new IDs.
The Muslim Council of...
Date of source: Saturday, May 8, 2004
Muhammad Abdel Qodous issued a statement as head of the Committee of Freedom affiliated with the Journalists’ Syndicate in which he supported the female broadcasters of Channel 5 who were suspended and moved to administrative jobs for taking the hijab [veil]. The statement also mentioned that the...
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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.