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Date of source: Wednesday, April 12, 2006
The EU is getting ready to launch a
dictionary to
accurately define Muslim cultural terminology, such as the words jihād,
"fundamentalist" and
"Islamist" in a bid to assert that there is no religion that compels its followers to
commit crimes in its
name.
Date of source: Saturday, April 15, 2006
Analysis of the Denmark cartoons issue by Dr. Hasan Muhammad Wajīh, expert of linguistics of negotiation and cross-cultural communication at the Azhar University and moderator of the April 15, 2006 discussion at El-Sawy Culture Wheel on ‘Freedom of expression and respect for the other. How to...
Date of source: Saturday, November 3, 2001 to Friday, November 9, 2001
The article is the text of a statement by the Islamic Research Institute about Islam’s attitude towards terrorism. The statement points out that dialogue and understanding among nations and countries is the only way to keep the variation of cultures and civilizations, which is a law of God....
Date of source: Tuesday, October 23, 2001
After the attacks of September 11, a kind of polarization happened with the followers of the three heavenly religions. Moderates from the three religions can unite and form a religious coalition. The current war will not be able to put an end to terrorism. Accordingly, there should be an...
Date of source: Sunday, October 21, 2001
Arabic and Western thinking was impacted by the theories of Huntington, Fokoyama and Bernard Lewis who made the clash between cultures and the end of history something inevitable. Current events were explained in the view of theses theories. However, we need to consider deeply what is going on...
Date of source: Monday, October 22, 2001
During the last few weeks, Americans ask why Muslims hate America? Sometimes the word "Muslims" was replaced by "the world." Muslims in their turn should ask themselves does what happened recently affected their image and their good relationships with non-Muslims in Arabic countries and all over...
Date of source: Sunday, October 21, 2001
The ignorance about Islam and Muslims, which now prevails in the West, did not appear suddenly after the attacks of September 11. Many things happened in the West attracting Muslims’ attention to the growing danger against Islam. Still, the Islamic institutions did not take any steps forward. They...
Date of source: Sunday, October 14, 2001
Father Rafiq Greish expressed his belief that the terrorist attacks of September 11 and America’s response to them did not reflect a conflict between religions and a clash between civilizations, because religions are based on love and respect and accepting the other. He pointed out that the...
Date of source: Friday, October 12, 2001
The author commented on Berlusconi’s attack on Islam, saying that he seemed to have forgotten that terrorism in the name of religion was a European product that appeared in the European Middle Ages. While Europe was dwelling under terrorism in the Middle Ages, the Islamic civilization flourished...
Date of source: Saturday, October 13, 2001
The terrorist attacks of September 11 brought to the surface the issue of the clash between civilizations, which was thought to have disappeared with the appearance of globalization. If Muslims reject the idea of a clash being there between civilizations and think there should be a dialogue...
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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.