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Date of source: Sunday, March 19, 2006
Broder writes about Dr. Wafa Sultan, a Syrian-American Muslim who recently complained bitterly against those who distort Islam. She strongly renounced terrorism, and Muslim backwardness and violence, saying these things were not what the Prophet Muhammad and the Qur’ān intended. The response,...
Date of source: Saturday, December 31, 2005
The Center for Arab-West Understanding (CAWU) received, a few months ago, a visit of a group of German journalists organized by Sarafea travel (www.sarafea.de). Veit Rasshofer, managing editor of the MidEast Policy Digest (www.arabmedia.de), expressed his appreciation for the work of Arab-West...
Date of source: Saturday, December 31, 2005
CSI’s focus on defending the religious freedom of persecuted Christians seems to lead them to very quickly interpret any incident, or rumor of an incident, as persecution. As a response, the author suggests that, rather than sending protest letters to the respective governments, international...
Date of source: Monday, March 13, 2006
The war on terrorism is casting its shadow over West-Islam relations, as shown by US policy towards Pakistan, Iran, and many other Muslim states. Buthayna Sha‘bān believes that the US stance is built on trust, and she thinks that to help their nations, Muslim leaders and states should trust...
Date of source: Saturday, March 11, 2006
The author of the article reports the points discussed in the Second Meeting of the High Level Group for the Alliance of civilizations held in Doha.
Date of source: Sunday, March 12, 2006
The author praises those who speak out against Islam, focusing on Wafa Sultan, and Arab woman in the U.S. in whose recent interview on al-Jazeera, she stated that the clash is not a clash of civilizations, but a clash between the culture of the West, and the backwardness and ignorance of the...
Date of source: Sunday, March 12, 2006
Jeff Jacoby argues that though his grandparents, aunts and uncles died at Auschwitz, Austria is committing a grave error by imprisoning David Irving for Holocaust denial, since freedom for the thought we hate, is the true test of freedom of thought.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 7, 2006
The author notes that it is contradictory for Jews to oppose anti-Semitism so strongly, while some of them practice injustice toward their Palestinian neighbors.
Date of source: Friday, March 3, 2006
A German citizen has received a suspended jail sentence of one year for insulting Islam by printing the word ‘Qur’ān’ on toilet paper and sending it to mosques and a number of Islamic institutions.
Date of source: Sunday, March 5, 2006
This writer, with a non-Western background, writes in strong support of Western values, especially freedom of expression in light of the Danish cartoon crisis, and condemns multiple aspects of the Islamic society as being inferior.
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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.