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Date of source: Wednesday, September 19, 2001
The author is of the opinion that the attacks in America were against Arabs and Muslims not against Americans as they brought to life the scenario of attacking everything Arabic and Islamic. They brought back to life what is known in the West as Islamophobia. He does not think that the Islamic...
Date of source: Saturday, September 22, 2001
Drs. Cornelis Hulsman was interviewed by Egyptian TV to speak about the role of Western media in reporting on the attack in America. The questions directed at him made it obvious that there is a deep mistrust of Western reporting about the Arab and Islamic world. The interviewer believed that...
Date of source: Saturday, June 21, 2003 to Friday, June 27, 2003
US police in the state of North Carolina arrested Erick Rudolf. Rudolf is a Christian extremist accused of bombing two abortion clinics, a nightclub for homosexuals and the bombing in Atlanta during the Olympics of 1996. What Rudolf did is an expression of religious extremist movements beginning to...
Date of source: Monday, January 6, 2003
The American paper Tallahassee Democrat apologized to Muslims in the US and suspended one of its newsmen after he made disparaging remarks about Arabs and Muslims.
Date of source: Thursday, August 19, 2004
Bishop Musa was asked if there is extremism among Copts, and in his answer affirmed that there is merely strictness among them. He further explained that religious extremism goes against Biblical teachings and those of the Coptic Church.
Date of source: Sunday, November 25, 2001
The recent American crisis revealed the West’s misunderstanding of Arabs and Muslims. Both sides are responsible for that misunderstanding. No one said that Christianity was against the American civilization when McVeigh proved to be the one behind Oklahoma attacks. However, Muslims were said to...
Date of source: Sunday, November 28, 1999
On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh blew up a truck in Oklahoma, killing 168 people. The rumor mill rolled into action, churning out that old bogey: Islamic extremism.
As we now know, the terror that rocked America that day was not of Muslim provenance. But it seems the lessons of that affair are...
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.