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Within days of declaring a visit of Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Muhammad Sayyid Ṭanṭāwī to the Vatican on an invitation from the Roman pope, opposing voices have risen as the pope’s famous lecture on Islām is fresh in the minds of many.
The author comments on Pope Benedicts XVI’s controversial statement while making extreme statements about the nature of Islam.
In this article the author comments on the book of Muḥammad ‘Imārah in which he accused ahl al-Dhimmah of infidelity.
The author discusses the pope’s recent visit to Turkey, and emphasizes the intellectual battle raging between the West and the religious ideology of today, both in the Vatican and in militant Islam.
October presents the opinion of Uri Avnery, an Israeli author, writing about the “conflict of civilizations.” October writes that Avnery has shown support to the Prophet of Islām and Muslims against false accusations and mistrust promoted by the head of the Catholic Church.
Islam promotes and celebrates diversity of mankind. had God wanted all people to believe in one religion, He would have made it so.
Explaining the broad meaning of the concept of jihād in Islām, Muslim thinker Rajab al-Bannā quoted famous British writer Karen Armstrong’s definition of it as "struggle and effort, not a synonym for holy war as Westerners define it." Ahmad ‘Izz al-Dīn al-‘Arab wrote in a short article in al-...
Majdī Khalīl mentions some of the situations where Muslims have attacked Christians, Jews and the West and questions who should apology to whom over such incidents.
The author reflects on the outrage following the controversial lecture given by Pope Benedict XVI in Germany and more broadly on the way that people respond to religious defamation or vilification.
The review deals with varied opinions about Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks considered offensive in Muslim and Arab countries amidst calls to expel the papal nuncio in Egypt and put the interfaith dialogue with the Vatican on the back burner.

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