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Date of source: Sunday, February 26, 2006
The author urges all Egyptians, particularly Copts, to join a secular movement that can stand against religious fundamentalism and guarantee the establishment of sound democracy.
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: Saturday, January 28, 2006
In his book Nothing’s Scared, playwright and stand-up comedian, Lewis Black refutes this argument and claims that the American people no longer care about religion. Black includes references to Mormonism and polygamy.
Date of source: Monday, January 30, 2006
Verbal skirmishes took place between the Copts and Dr. Jamāl Nassār, the media advisor of the Muslim Brotherhood murshid [guide], after Nassār objected to canceling the religious identity from official papers.
Date of source: Saturday, January 28, 2006
The author argues that there are three types of religious people. The first type of person focuses heavily on rituals, sometimes being judgmental. The second focuses mainly on worldly issues and secularism. The third group sticks to moderation and follows a balanced pattern in life when it comes to...
Date of source: Thursday, January 26, 2006
Commenting on reported attempts by the Muslim Brotherhood to appease Egypt’s Copts, Coptic thinker Samīr Marqus has described the "banned” group’s dialogue with Copts as useless and of no practical value.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 24, 2006
The author argues that religion can never be completely absent from life for man can never be divided into two material and moral beings or religious and secularist entities.
Date of source: Thursday, January 12, 2006
The Cairo-based al-Kalima Center for Human Rights has issued its annual report on the political events of 2005, including syndicate, presidential and parliamentary elections. The report calls for respecting the rights of religious minorities in Egypt, including Shiites, Bahā’īs and Qur’ānīs.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 20, 2005
A critique of the controversial work of researcher Yustina Saleh on the 2nd article of the Egyptian constitution, which states that sharī‘a is the main source of law.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 20, 2005
A French researcher specializing in the study of religion and its relationship with modernity and politics elaborates about secularism and the reasons of the sudden reemergence of religion in the world.
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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.