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Date of source: السبت, نيسان (أبريل) 20, 2002
Osama Salama´s words are sharp, full of anger about Coptic emigrants. People in Egypt, other Arab countries, Europe, the US and Israel itself protest against the Israeli atrocities against the Palestinians. But where are the voices of the emigrant Copts and Arab Christians? We checked the Copts...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, آذار (مارس) 5, 2002
Khalid Dowran is a Muslim Arab living in America. He wrote a book titled “The Seed of Abraham…Towards an Understanding of Islam.” The book caused a wide controversy to the extent that the leader of one of the Islamic groups in Jordan issued a fatwa that charges Dowran of kufr [unbelief]. In the...
Date of source: الأحد, شباط (فبراير) 17, 2002
Renouncing terrorism does not need books to be compiled, as the leaders of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya have done recently. It needs a true repentance and a confession of being guilty because of the many crimes committed. Some of the Brotherhood leaders said that such renouncement of violence could...
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون الثاني (يناير) 21, 2002
Montasser Al-Zayyat stresses that he is the lawyer of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya and that he has no organizational relationship with them because he does not want to subject himself to punishment by law. Many of his statements on the activities of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya show that he is not...
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 14, 2005
The Copts in Egypt are used by the authorities as a scapegoat to keep the government in office.
Date of source: الأحد, أيلول (سبتمبر) 25, 2005
Radical Islamists have not only settled for censorship in their fight against intellectuals, but have issued fatwas, sentencing to death thinkers with whom they disagree. Intellectuals across the Muslim world have been attacked or assassinated in accordance with these fatwas.
Date of source: السبت, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 13, 2004
In previous issues I have focused on the “must-know religious information” and the consequent do’s and don’ts which if violated would, according to jurisprudential conditions, lead to apostasy, punishable by death if attempts to secure repentance ended up in failure.
We have learnt that this rule...
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 3, 2004
Arab Christians are trapped between the hammer of terrorists groups and extremists, and the anvil of fanatic governments that skillfully manipulate the issue of religious radicalism for their own benefit [Editor: what governments does Magdi Khalil refer to?], while reinforcing religious, ethnic and...
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تموز (يوليو) 27, 2004
No one can deny that national unity and religious brotherhood have been and will remain part and parcel of Egypt’s national textile, a fact that is established and acknowledged inside and outside Egypt. Religious groups that penetrated the Egyptian society and spread their ideologies threaten Egypt...
Date of source: السبت, حزيران (يونيو) 4, 2005
Sayyid al-Qimnī writes about the way Arabs and Muslims deal with the issue of accepting the “Other” saying that we worry about our mental health and religion from the "other,” the unbeliever, but we are captives to backwardness and darkness and imagine unreal dangers that would harm us if we faced...
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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.