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Date of source: الثلاثاء, آب (اغسطس) 30, 2005
A senior Muslim cleric in London issued a fatwa saying that suicide operations are halāl [religiously permissible], according to Islamic sharīca. He even said that they are a religious obligation. However, following the bombings on the London Underground that killed scores of people and has led to...
Date of source: الاثنين, آب (اغسطس) 22, 2005
Terrorism has dominated the headlines over the last couple of years, and it is now widely believed that terrorism will never be eliminated.
Date of source: السبت, آب (اغسطس) 20, 2005 to الجمعة, آب (اغسطس) 26, 2005
Terrorism is a microbe that comes and goes, depending on the state’s immune system, but it never dies. There is no vaccine against terror because it was originally imposed with the help of the major powers.
Date of source: الخميس, أيلول (سبتمبر) 15, 2005
Islam has come under fire in some international media circles. Qur’ānic verses are sometimes taken out of context in an attempt to distort the meanings of the Holy Book. The author discusses the media’s interaction with Islam.
Date of source: الخميس, آب (اغسطس) 10, 2006 to الأربعاء, آب (اغسطس) 16, 2006
By far the majority of Muslims today live their lives without recourse to violence, for the Koran is like a pick-and-mix selection. If you want peace, you can find peaceable verses. If you want war, you can find bellicose verses. You can find verses which permit only defensive jihad, or you can...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آب (اغسطس) 16, 2005
Many people speak about the political ‘injustice’ that many Muslims detect in the policies of the West. It is this sense of injustice that encouraged the Turkish terrorist Sokarra, who dated girls, and drank alcohol, to join the al-Qācīda camps. Yet this shallow explanation of the phenomenon of...
Date of source: الاثنين, آب (اغسطس) 15, 2005
The author states that the democracy of the West, which is based on intellectual affiliation between people, does not match the Arab world, since it has not yet been modernized. He claims that the best version of democracy in the Arab world is that which depends on a "change" of power between...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آب (اغسطس) 9, 2005
Born under the ‘State of Emergency’, the author accepted the purely apolitical culture imposed by the Egyptian regime. She recounts her experience at the recent anti-terrorism demonstration in Cairo.
Date of source: الأحد, آب (اغسطس) 7, 2005
Most commentators argue that Islamic terrorism is a fanatical perversion of Islam, which deviates from its true teachings. They call for a Western-style modernization of the Muslim world, hoping thereby that radical Islam will be tamed.
Date of source: الاثنين, آب (اغسطس) 1, 2005
An Islamist who follows the activities of al-Qācida has suggested that the ‘grandsons’ of that organization consider the Internet their ‘shaykh’, not Usāma Bin Lādin or Ayman al-Zawāhirī.
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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.