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Date of source: Monday, March 8, 2004
The latest report released by the U.S. State Department
concerning human rights in the Middle East for year 2003 strongly attacked the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia.
The report is evidence for behind-the-curtain movements to pressure Saudi Arabia to
stop applying a number of Islamic hadds, such as the...
Date of source: Saturday, May 22, 2004
“Al-Horriya Al-Deeniya fi Al-Islam” [Religious Freedom in Islam] is the most important book of Sheikh Abdel Mota’al Al-Sa’eedy, a senior sheikh at the Azhar. Sheikh Al-Sa’eedy reached the conclusion that whoever abandons Islam should not be killed. He believes that what has been previously said...
Date of source: Monday, April 18, 2005
Shawqī Murqus, went to the civil status department to ask for a national identity card but the department refused to issue it for him under the pretext that he had converted to Islam in 1972. He provided evidence that he had reconverted to Christianity with a ruling of the Clerical Council of the...
Date of source: Friday, April 8, 2005
Grand
Imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, referred a controversial fatwa to the Islamic Research
Institute. This took place after Islamic activist Tāriq Ramadān, (the grandson of Shaykh Hasan al-Bannā, the
founder of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood group), called for the cessation of...
Date of source: Monday, April 4, 2005
Tāriq Ramadān, grandson of late Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Bannā, has urged freezing capital
punishment in Islam like stoning and decapitation.
Ramadān also urged the mobilization of Muslims worldwide to ask
their governments to stop applying the hudoud, alleging the application...
Date of source: Friday, March 18, 2005
I would like to examine the issue and the consequences of the states that do not apply the Islamic penal laws, Hudud, for adultery, wine drinking or slandering. Are they Islamic countries or not? This issue explains the significance of executing penalties in Islam, because the malpractice of...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Honor crimes are committed day and night by followers of all religions. The irony is that Arab and Islamic societies that believe in the idea that honor lies in the virginity of females, simultaneously have scholars that confirm that the hymen is not a proof of virginity. This article examines the...
Date of source: Sunday, May 20, 2001
In this article, Mustafa Mahmoud speaks about the true meaning of Shari’a [Islamic law], to whom it has been given and on whose shoulders rests the responsibility of applying it. He comments on application of Shari’a in Sudan and Iran.
Date of source: Friday, February 18, 2000
Sub-title: The Prophet did not kill any Muslim who renounced his religion The book of the Islamic intellectual Gamal Al-Banna "Islam and the freedom of thought" which was issued lately, raised many questions concerning the issue of apostasy. This is an interview with Gamal Al-Banna who says: "My...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 29, 1999
The punishment for Ridda [apostasy] from Islam was not stated clearly in the Holy Qur’an like the punishment for stealing. However, it was mentioned in two not-agreed-by-all Hadiths. The scholars did not consider such Hadiths while giving opinions, to the extent that Dr. Mahmoud Shaltout, the late...
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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.