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Date of source: Tuesday, November 16, 2004
There is a current debate concerning Amr Ibn Al-'As, and whether he was a pious figure. Islamic imposters have viciously attacked anyone who criticizes him, claiming that he is an Islamic figure, and affording him a holiness that has no religious or historical support.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 9, 2004
Over and over again, we are just seeing the same incidents, names and climate that brought about terrorism, takfir [accusing someone of unbelief] and hisba [the right of a Muslim to defend public morality, suing on behalf of religion].
- See art. 18, 19: Screening the Soap Opera "Bint min Shurba...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Many books and
articles have been written about Sayyid Qutb, not because he contributed to enriching the Salafist way of thinking, but
rather because he, despite his foggy vision, influenced all religious extremist movements.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 5, 2005
By assuming a civil, political role, the [Coptic]
Orthodox Church deviated from its religious mission to adopt the sectarian isolationist ideology of the Umma al-Qibtīya
“Coptic Nation Group” to become a “draft state”[in other words ‘Imāra is accusing the church of being separatist],
following...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 5, 2005
In
his book Features of Despotism, cAbd al-Rahman al-Kawākibī, who was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1854 and died in Egypt
in 1902, defines despotism as an epithet of a government that has absolute limitless powers that stops at no law and respects
no voice of its people. Kawākibī views that Islam,...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 5, 2005
Despite being Syrian, Muhammad Rashīd Ridā’s intellectual and political activities have reached their zenith
during his stay in Egypt in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Groups adopting declared political objectives standing on
Ridā’s ideas like the Fascist Misr al-Fatāh [Young Egypt] and...
Date of source: Friday, February 18, 2005
The first stage of the West’s struggle against the non-Western civilizations ended with breaking the thorn of both the Islamic and Chinese civilizations.
The second stage is characterized by containing these non-Western civilizations, which have managed to modernize their reality, meanwhile...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Dr. Zaghloul al-Najjār has been repeating over and over that the tsunami victims deserved what happened to them because they are sinners and adulterers. I asked Dr. al-Najjār what would you say about the recent flood in Pakistan, which is an Islamic country, the earthquake in the Islamic Republic...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 15, 2005
The murderer of the Dutch filmmaker, Theo Van Gogh, was one of four million Dutch who have two nationalities. Gogh was shot dead on an Amsterdam street in a region inhabited by immigrants, foreigners and workmen who came from Morocco after the Second World War on the invitation of the Dutch...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Not so long ago, I lashed out at some fatwas [Muslim religious opinions or decrees given by a Mufti or another Muslim scholar, based on Islamic Law and logical measurement] issued by shaykh Youssuf al-Qaradāwī concerning the slaughter in Iraq under the name of ‘resistance’ as well as others...
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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.