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Date of source: Friday, September 17, 2004
The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Miguel Moratinos, is among those who offered suggestions that address the phenomenon of terrorism in a practical manner away from the approach based on military power adopted by many others. Miguel Moratinos stressed the necessity of creating a strategic...
Date of source: Thursday, September 2, 2004
The Lebanese Shiite religious authority Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Fadl Allah, released a statement that dealt with the child-hostage taking in Russia, and with events in Iraq. The statement said: “We reject – strongly – the hostage-taking of children in their school in southern Russia. We also reject...
Date of source: Monday, May 9, 2005
Cassette tapes urging jihād, bloodshed and relentlessness have been flooding the Egyptian market lately. They are produced in Saudi Arabia and exported to us via Egyptians coming home from hajj or cumra [lesser pilgrimage].
The objective pursued by these tapes was to give the impression that “we...
Date of source: Friday, May 7, 2004
Since the emergence of Islam, the intellectual dialogue between Christian and Muslim thinkers hasn’t ceased. The dialogue took form through the efforts of Orientalist Christian thinkers who lived in the East at the time of the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates.
One of the difficulties that faces...
Date of source: Saturday, May 8, 2004
About 12 imams have been arrested and deported from France since June 2003 because of their extremist ideologies. According to official statistics in France, there are about 32 mosques and zawya [small mosque attached to buildings] under the control of fundamentalist groups [in France] with an...
Date of source: Saturday, May 15, 2004
Since the banned group of the Muslim Brotherhood took over the Doctors’ Syndicate, as well as other syndicates, these syndicates have no longer been open to all members. There is only one voice that can be heard in the Doctors’ Syndicate that is the voice of the Brotherhood. It seems that the...
Date of source: Sunday, June 6, 2004
Three runaway suspects turned themselves in to the Egyptian authorities, increasing the number of arrested Muslim Brotherhood members to fifty-eight. One Muslim Brotherhood member, Muhammad Ibrahim, has yet to be arrested.
The prosecution for Higher State Security sentenced the three suspects to...
Date of source: Friday, June 18, 2004
Prominent scholar, Dr. Youssef Al-Qaradawi, raised anger in Moscow when he issued a fatwa that proclaimed the struggle of the Chechen people against the Russian state to be the best form of jihad for the sake of God. The president of the Russian deputies council, Doma, Alexander Choweiv, said that...
Date of source: Monday, June 28, 2004
There are dozens of Internet sites that propagate rumors made up by enemies of the nation, starting with Al-Qa’ida members and ending with the Coptic émigrés. Al-Maqrizi Center’s web site has recently spread a rumor about the President Mubarak’s health. That rumor was easily contained, but many...
Date of source: Sunday, October 31, 2004
For more than twenty
-five years, Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim has been participating in making events all over the Arab
World. He propagated the culture of human rights when he first founded The Arab Organization for
Human Rights. He then embraced the cause of minorities in his conference in 1994 on...
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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.