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Date of source: Friday, December 17, 2004
The U.S. and
several Western political, ideological, media-related and religious entities, declared war on
Islam following September 11. This war on Islam, under the leadership of the United States, did
not occur without historical precedence.
Date of source: Sunday, April 4, 2004
I
conducted this interview with Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim almost two months ago, but it was not
complete. The atmosphere was very tense because he considered the questions a sort of an insult
to him. Dr. Ibrahim calls for freedom and democracy all the time, so how can he get angry at a
question,...
Date of source: Saturday, February 12, 2005
Some recent analyses held that the U.S. administration is now busy planning to wage a new Cold War on the Muslim world, a war that would not be far from a concept of a Crusade in a modern form.
Date of source: Friday, January 28, 2005
Neither Qur’anic verses nor hadiths [traditions of the Prophet Muhammad] have stipulated the period of time required for repentance or the methods needed for a man to acquire the spirit of repentance. In fact, the whole matter goes back to how grave a threat the ridda (apostasy from Islam) poses on...
Date of source: Monday, December 10, 2001
The course of events in the ongoing war exposed the falsity of the American claim that it is not a war against Islam but against terrorism. Afghanistan is targeted by America not because of the attacks of September 11 but because it represents a rebellious Islam. However, putting an end to the...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 23, 2001
The author believes that Egyptians’ fear of the report of the US Commission for International Religious Freedom on Egypt prevented them from seeing that it was poorly written and lacked information. He thinks that the question in hand is not the rights of religious minorities, nor does it achieving...
Date of source: Friday, January 12, 2001
Instead of isolation of fundamentalist leaders living in exile, they are now making statements through e-mail or web sites, declaring their point of view.. The newest e-Jihad site is the Mujahidin, supervised by the Arab-Afghans. In the Mujahidin site, published in Arabic, English, and Turkish, is...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 3, 2001
Different religions are entering political challenges, not in the name of God, but in the name of power. Historians agree that wars do not often happen for religious reasons. The first religious war dates back to 1095, when the knights answered the call of Pope Urban II to save Christians in the...
Date of source: Saturday, November 25, 2000
Religious extremists started campaigning against Rose Al-Youssef because it published a series of taped interviews with them which unleashed their thoughts, methods and goals. Yasser Al-Serri felt cornered after the magazine revealed the unimportance of his role, and how flat his ideas are. Sheikh...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 27, 2000
The last thing to come to mind is that "Wahabiyya" [An extreme orthodox version of Islam, named after it originator Mohammed Ibn Abdel-Wahab, who lived in what is now known as Saudi Arabia in the late eighteenth century] becoming the first enemy in Russia. Worse and more strange is that nobody...
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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.