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It is clear from the comments on Bat Ye´or´s article, that not all the points she discussed have been responded to. For example, what she says concerning the fact that jihad belongs to the religious domain and cannot be discussed and the feeling of superiority in Islam.
Dr. Abdel-Rahman Salam refutes that Islam spread by the sword. He says that the call to Islam is based on wisdom, fair exhortation and choice and that Islam did not know real expansion except in time of peace. He explains that the aim of the conquests Muslims carried out was not to spread Islam but...
Dr. Kamal Boraiq'a responded to the summary of Bishop Cragg's lecture in the RNSAW. Dr. Boraiq´a does not believe polemic discussions at to the understanding of the faith of the other and even could lead to conflict. Dr. Boraiq´a then continues to explain the Islamic point of view of participating...
September 11 was not the beginning of the associating of terrorism with Islam. The Crusades marked the beginning of the actual attack of the West against Islam. Because the West is apprehensive of the Islamic revival, many theories calling for attacking Islam appeared in the West. If Islam really...
In response to the offensive cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, first published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in September 2005, moderate Egyptian preacher, ‘Amr Khālid has revealed an initiative to engage in dialogue with Danish youth and intellectuals in a bid to find common...
The author comments on an article by Gamal Al-Banna in which he called upon the Azhar to “forget about banning books for the sake of Egypt.” The author argues in favor of the Azhar giving its opinion concerning religious books. “It is not the Azhar’s rejection of a certain book that creates...
Eleven intellectuals comment on the statement the Sheikh of the Azhar gave in the International Islamic Conference in Malaysia concerning the prohibition of publishing books that urge extremism. They believe that such decision may back the banning policy.
A Muslim intellectual said that the provisions of Islam regulating the relationship between Muslims and the kitabīs [People of the Book] should not function as a basis to rule that those kitabīs are disbelievers.
Neither Qur’anic verses nor hadiths [traditions of the Prophet Muhammad] have stipulated the period of time required for repentance or the methods needed for a man to acquire the spirit of repentance. In fact, the whole matter goes back to how grave a threat the ridda (apostasy from Islam) poses on...

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