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In one of his books, Dr. ‘Umar ‘Abd al-Rahmān interprets the Sūrah of al-Tawbah [Chapter of Repentance] as a divine order that supports killing non-Muslims unless they convert to Islam. However, the author cites a more moderate interpretation, saying that it is meant to straighten the behavior of...
The brutality of the attacks of September 11 made Europe and America disclose their true feelings against Arabs and Muslims, who were accused right away after the attacks. These real feelings show the West, which claims to be democratic and considerate about human rights is not. The whole issue is...
The author believes that Muslim scholars, when commenting on the attacks in America and Islam’s relationship to it, talk about politics instead of talking about religion. Everything politicians wanted was said by religious scholars. In the end, religion will be troubled by the description that it...
Rev. Ikram Lama’i believes that the dilemma the USA is going through has four angles: historical, linguistic, civilizational and theological. He expressed the opinion that for America to get itself out of all these dilemmas, it should reconsider its actions and go back to the real principles of the...
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...
The article discusses the attitude of the West towards the Islamic veil spread among Muslim women living in Western countries. The author argues that Muslim emigrants should not clash with their new societies for the veil which he describes as a piece of cloth, especially as Western societies lost...
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...
The author covers the meetings organized by the Goethe Institute with a number of Arab journalists and specialists in Islamic studies and Arab culture under the title “A Dialogue with the Islamic World.” The meetings discussed the image of Islam in the eyes of the West, especially after September...
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.
A Christian reader comments on Islamic intellectual Mustafa Mahmoud´s article "American civilization." He points out that Eastern Christians differ from Western Christians in race, culture, language, traditions and even in understanding religion. Mahmoud supports this opinion.

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