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Date of source: Monday, March 15, 2004
Usama Bin Laden has successfully managed to raise the bar of terrorism. A terrorist attack now has specific features; there has to be massive killing of a large number of people. There has to be flames and debris. There has to be television cameras from all over the world. It is now common news to...
Date of source: Saturday, March 20, 2004
Arabs and Muslims, particularly in Spain and generally in Europe, now fear a rising wave of racial discrimination against them, and also that they will be confused with terrorists. This comes amid the investigations of the Madrid attacks, based on the assumption that Al-Qa’eda is involved in the...
Date of source: Saturday, March 20, 2004
A quick review of current events suggests that what happened in the United States following the September 11, 2001 attacks will happen again in Europe following the March 11, 2004 train explosions. As Arabs and Muslims we need to make them hear our cry—that we also suffer from terrorism and that...
Date of source: Saturday, March 20, 2004
Islamic Britons expressed their shock yesterday after the sanctity of an Islamic grave was violated in London, an assault believed to have links to last week’s Madrid bombings. Iqbal Sakarany, the secretary general of the Islamic Council, criticized the media for using the term “Muslim terrorists”...
Date of source: Thursday, March 18, 2004
The head of the Catholic Conference of Bishops in Germany, Cardinal Karl Lehmann warned against looking at Muslims in Germany with suspicion and considering them all as suspects after the frightening attacks that took place in Madrid last week. He said in an interview with the Deutsche Welle DW...
Date of source: Saturday, March 20, 2004
Terrorists have changed their strategies after the precautionary measures taken by world countries in airports and on board of planes following the September 11 attacks. Terrorist operations now target trains and train stations, where a massive number of people crowd, especially during rush hour....
Date of source: Wednesday, April 27, 2005
The news about arresting terrorist suspects all over Europe and the US drew the attention to what is known as the dormant terrorist cells of al-Qā‘ida. Those cells share common impetuses: reestablishing the Islamic Caliphate, the detestation of the US and its policies towards the Arab world and 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.