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Date of source: Tuesday, December 24, 2002
A law student at Cairo University has brought a court action demanding the abolishment of the curricula of the faculty of law claiming that it calls for polytheism and does not conform to Islam.
Date of source: Friday, July 18, 2003
The author comments on the American cultural war against Islam and Muslims in light of the book “The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters” by Frances Stonor Saunders. The book comments on the international cultural war launched by the CIA against communism, national...
Date of source: Saturday, March 13, 2004
The author [a Muslim intellectual] writes about a debate that took part between him and a member of the Gama’a Al-Islamiya on change of educational curricula in Muslim countries. The debate was aired by Al-Jazeera satellite channel on February 17, 2004. Sheikhs in Egyptian mosques continued the...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 9, 2004
The article is an interview with Egyptian Minister of Education Dr. Hussein Kamel Bahaa Eddin. The interview discusses a number of issues such as whether the U.S. interfered in [Egypt’s] educational curricula, whether religious extremist factions have succeeded in penetrating the teaching ranks,...
Date of source: Sunday, April 4, 2004
The American administration attributes terrorism to culture and faith—especially Islamic faith. The lack of terrorist events during a long period of time in the Islamic culture’s history is evidence that the Islamic culture is not a reason for the terrorism that is currently taking place. So if...
Date of source: Thursday, June 3, 2004
The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Sheikh Sayyed Tantawi, rejected any interference in the affairs of Muslims under the guise of calls for change and reform. He announced that no one interferes in Al-Azhar’s affairs, including the President or any other authority in the country. He also stressed that...
Date of source: Monday, June 21, 2004
Al-Usbua received documents that confirmed that eliminating the Azhar institutes comes as part of the plan to Americanize the religious discourse in Egypt and the Arab World. Washington believes that the religious educational curricula instill hatred against all things American. For the U.S. to...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 10, 2004
The article discusses the image of Islam and Muslims in Western educational curricula. The
author explains that Western curricula depict a negative stereotypical picture of Islam and
Muslims.
Date of source: Thursday, February 19, 2004
Colin
Powell wants his administration to convince the leaders of the Islamic world that the education
offered by schools in the Muslim world does not suit our times and undermines peace and security.
He claims that such education teaches students the worse terms in religion and the most hateful...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 2, 2004
The article criticize an
article published in Al-Liwaa’ Al-Islami under the title "Colin Powell calls for reforming the
curriculum of Islamic education…and installing alternative curricula. "
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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.