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Date of source: Wednesday, May 8, 2002
Reconsidering the ideologies of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya on the part of its imprisoned leaders caused divisions within the group. There is a general agreement on renouncing violence. But the controversy lies in the leaders´ declaration to refrain from their previous practices. This is...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 27, 2002
Salah Hashim, the founder of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya spoke about the Gama´at since its foundation in Assiut, the role the then governor of Assiut played in relation to the formation of the Gama´at and their disputes with the Muslim Brotherhood. He supports the corrective review of the ideologies of...
Date of source: Saturday, March 2, 2002
The leaders of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya expressed their complete agreement to end the actions to kill. They affirmed that their mistakes in the past came as a result of a false Ijtihad. In this article they explain the legal basis behind their renunciation of violence and reconsideration of old...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 6, 2002
The article gives information about the three Jihad organization members who are recommended to succeed Ayman Al-Zawahri. They are Morgan Mustafa, Abdel-Aziz Moussa Al-Gamal and Tharwat Salah Shehata.
Date of source: Saturday, January 5, 2002 to Friday, January 11, 2002
A number of foreigners visited Luxor and Assiut in Upper Egypt to inquire about some terrorists. Upper Egyptians refused to give any details about the terrorists. They informed the Egyptian security forces about the foreigners. The Egyptian security forces had already known about the movements of...
Date of source: Monday, January 7, 2002
Montasser Al-Zayyat believes that it is not right at all to say that Arabs and Muslims should target Americans because America is targeting their nations and children. He added that a new plan was to be adopted by the Gama´at Al-Islamiya. The plan insists that Islam is not just violence and counter...
Date of source: Monday, February 13, 2006
The Jihād Group repudiated statements made by their imprisoned leader ‘Abboud al-Zumor, who is serving a term in jail for involvement in the assassination of President Anwar al-Sadāt in 1981, in which he admitted the right of the Bahā’ī faith to express itself.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 8, 2006
The author argues that some Muslim scholars were unfairly branded as propagating extremist ideas as far as relations between Muslims and non-Muslims are concerned. He promotes equality for Christians and Muslims, even unto presidential candidates.
Date of source: Saturday, February 4, 2006 to Friday, February 10, 2006
Over the last twenty years, some Islamic movements have preferred to work within their societies regarding their governments "the closer enemy.” They have divided the world into two sections: Dār al-Islām (the land of Islam), and Dār al-Harb (the land of war).
Date of source: Wednesday, February 1, 2006
In the drama that followed the republishing of the Danish cartoons across several European nations, the Danish and Norwegian Embassies in Damascus, and also the Danish Consulate in Beirut, were all burnt down. These incidents prompted those foreign ministers to advise their people to leave Syria...
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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.