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Date of source: Sunday, September 26, 2004
At the opening of the Cultural Season of the Islamic Council at the Nour Mosque in Abbasya, Grand Imam of the Azhar, Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, emphasized that the kidnapping of the six Egyptians in Iraq is a criminal act, and that Islam denounces those who have done that, regardless of their...
Date of source: Saturday, September 25, 2004
In occupied Iraq some groups abduct and kill hostages in the name of Islam. The abduction and killing of hostages in Iraq turned into a business as abductors demand money in exchange for the release of hostages. Some abductors made a fortune out of these operations. These operations offend both...
Date of source: Saturday, October 2, 2004
Outside Iraq many Muslim scholars and members of the Muslim Brotherhood expressed their wholehearted support of what they called ‘the Iraqi resistance’ through satellite TVs in the Gulf countries and the heavily circulated Islamized newspapers. They wrote about their viewpoints that go in line with...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 14, 2004
If anyone would like to see an example of the media of strife, he may take a look at the distorted, fabricated news published by Arabic papers last week. This news is about the statement Dr. Youssef Al-Qaradawi made at the Egyptian Journalists' Syndicate about the resistance against the Americans...
Date of source: Saturday, September 18, 2004
Fatwa-making is a very serious task at the time religion has such an uncompetitive influence on human beings. Recently, Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi was harshly criticized for fawas that was incorrectly attributed to him. In the coming interview, Sheikh Al-Qaradawi answers questions about the fiqh [...
Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 2004
We have but one choice. The vast majority of Muslims have to break their silence and declare its religious, ethical stance [towards terrorism] in a clear-cut manner. We have to free Islam from its abductors and declare to the whole world, to all its cultures, races and religions, that we reject and...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 2004
These days, Arab newspapers are full of commentaries putting the blame on Muslims for terrorism and others practiced self-flagellation and self-hatred to the extent that they claimed the history of Muslims is a history of oppression, tyranny and baseness. No one asks himself whether what is...
Date of source: Saturday, August 7, 2004
Mixing the two concepts of jihad and liberation has made many Arabs support Al-Qa’ida’s actions in Iraq considering it Jihad. Declaring jihad became open field for anyone who wants to act against his government, his country or against other countries. There is a big difference between the concept...
Date of source: Friday, June 10, 2005
The Zionist-Christian clergy have viewed the US-led war on Iraq in March 2003 as something that would guarantee the security of Israel. They believe that war is one of the conditions to materialize the Torah’s prophesies on the advent of Christ.
Date of source: Saturday, June 11, 2005
Muftī of the Republic Shaykh ‘Alī Jumca said he has never issued a fatwa [religious edict] about demonstrations, stressing that if demonstrations were meant to peacefully express opinion, which is a constitutional right, then there is nothing wrong.
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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.