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Date of source: Monday, February 16, 2004
Mamdouh Ismail criticizes the opinions of Prince Al-Walid Ibn Talal [the owner
of the music satellite channel Rotana] on the issue of the veil in France and of martyrdom
operations. The prince voiced his opinion in an interview with the French paper Le Figaro.
Date of source: Friday, February 20, 2004
The Grand Imam of Al Azhar Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi
confirmed that the veil is an Islamic obligation and whoever denies it is considered an apostate.
During the meeting of the head authority of the International Islamic Council for Da’wa and
Relief, he said that dealing with the French veil ban...
Date of source: Sunday, February 22, 2004
Today, a
harsh delusory media campaign would be mounted against France due to the law banning the donning
of explicit religious symbols. We might as well take France’s ’lead and put our house in order
by going after the countless issues we tend to shelf or place ’on hold’, leaving them...
Date of source: Thursday, March 3, 2005
A British court upheld the right of a Muslim girl student to wear her hijāb [headscarf] inside her school in a case that sparked a public uproar reminiscent of the one in France about the hijāb in government schools.
Date of source: Thursday, March 3, 2005
Five members of the European Parliament have launched a signature-collecting campaign to forward a written petition demanding European countries to respect individual freedom to wear what one wants; Muslim hijāb, Sikh turban, Christian crucifix or Jewish yarmulke in schools or government...
Date of source: Monday, March 7, 2005
The Qur’an says about the kitābis [People of the Book] that “They are not all alike” [The Meaning of The Holy Qur’ān by Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall,3:113 ].
I just remembered this Qur’ānic fairness when I read about two court rulings and a political position that recently took the attention of...
Date of source: Friday, February 25, 2005
With the 100th anniversary of the 1905 law, known as the law of Laïcité, or secularism in France, many French voices have started to call for expanding the ban on all religious symbols, especially the hijāb [veil covering a woman’s hair]. They want to apply this law within all hospitals,...
Date of source: Sunday, January 16, 2005
The British courts ordered £ 10.000 compensation for a British Muslim called Muhammad Khān after he was sacked from his job for going on a five-week pilgrimage to Mecca
Date of source: Sunday, October 3, 2004
A Muslim girl has managed to beat the ban on hijab [veil covering a woman’s hair] in French schools. The girl took off her hijab in front of the principal who was surprised to find that she shaved off her hair. Cennet Doganay was banned from classes for wearing hijab after a law preventing school...
Date of source: Friday, September 14, 2001
The BBC fired a Muslim journalist from his job because of his clear inclination towards Islam. The British Islamic Council issued a declaration stating its disgust at the decision to fire a journalist for being a member of an Islamic group.
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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.