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Date of source: Tuesday, December 18, 2001
The Pakistani press reported that the US decided to control religious education in Pakistan. Saudi sources said that the Saudi ministry of education was revising the Islamic schoolbooks to make sure that the subjects of the books agree with the general tendency to counter extremism. The President...
Date of source: Friday, November 30, 2001
The president of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the People’s Assembly affirmed the importance of changing the Arabic discourse for a better understanding of the other [the West]. He said that there is an Arabic-Islamic revival that should be turned into an active civilizing power. He added that...
Date of source: Thursday, November 15, 2001 to Wednesday, November 21, 2001
Could the current US-led coalition war against Afghanistan result in tensions between Egypt’s two major religions? In Lebanon the split between Christians and Muslims has widened as each has taken the opposite side. Egypt, however, has experienced nothing of this kind.
Date of source: Saturday, November 17, 2001 to Friday, November 23, 2001
The British authorities discovered that a security company called Sakina was recruiting British Muslim youth and sending them to Chechnya and Afghanistan to participate in Jihad against the Christian West. Therefore they closed the company and arrested its members. The members of Sakina are...
Date of source: Sunday, November 11, 2001
Al-Arabi received many comments on its article "Al-Awa’s fatwa ignites controversy in Al-Wasat" published on November 4. The deputy of Al-Wasat Party said that the article attributed to him things he did not say. The article also claimed that Mamdouh Ismail and Gamal Sultan are members of Al-Wasat...
Date of source: Sunday, November 11, 2001
A Pakistani journalist interviewed Usama Bin Laden who said that if America used chemical or nuclear weapons against his group, they may retort with chemical and nuclear weapons. He added that the Pakistani president would be punished by the Pakistani people and Allah for cooperating with America.
Date of source: Monday, November 12, 2001
Al-Usbua of November 5 claimed Dr. Tareq Mitri and father Khalid Akasheh rejected describing Islam as a heavenly religion in the final session of a Muslim-Christian conference. Dr. Mitri wrote the RNSAW and denied he said this. Dr. Muhammad Selim Al-Awa supports Dr. Mitri and praises him for his...
Date of source: Friday, November 9, 2001
The statements given and the attitudes adopted by senior American officials and European leaders after Bush’s crusade statement indicated that there were attempts to give the attacks against Afghanistan the dimension of a crusade-in the religious sense- against Islamic terrorism-something in the...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 7, 2001
When the Islamic and Arabic media deal with the attacks of September 11 and its consequences as an Islamic war against western-Christians and say Muslims must be supported, the ordinary Christian finds himself in a denominational quandary. He asks himself if it is a conflict between Islam and...
Date of source: Monday, August 16, 1999
One year after the Clinton Administration’s launching 79 Cruise missiles against what the President stated were terrorist targets in Afghanistan and Sudan in retaliation for the devastating terrorist bombings that had destroyed U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, which...
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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.