Posted on 10/11/2007 2:10:34 PM PDT by america4vr
LONDON (Reuters) - More than 130 Muslim scholars from around the globe called on Thursday for peace and understanding between Islam and Christianity, saying "the very survival of the world itself is perhaps at stake."
In an unprecedented letter to Pope Benedict and other Christian leaders, 138 Muslim scholars said finding common ground between the world's biggest faiths was not simply a matter for polite dialogue between religious leaders.
"If Muslims and Christians are not at peace, the world cannot be at peace. With the terrible weaponry of the modern world; with Muslims and Christians intertwined everywhere as never before, no side can unilaterally win a conflict between more than half of the world's inhabitants," the scholars wrote.
"Our common future is at stake. The very survival of the world itself is perhaps at stake," they wrote, adding that Islam and Christianity already agreed that love of God and neighbor were the two most important commandments of their faiths.
Relations between Muslims and Christians have been strained as al Qaeda has struck around the world and as the United States and other Western countries intervened in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Such a joint letter is unprecedented in Islam, which has no central authority that speaks on behalf of all worshippers.
The list of signatories includes senior figures throughout the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. They represent Sunni, Shi'ite and Sufi schools of Islam.
Among them were the grand muftis of Egypt, Palestine, Oman, Jordan, Syria, Bosnia and Russia and many imams and scholars. War-torn Iraq was represented by both Shi'ites and Sunnis.
Mustafa Cagrici, the mufti who prayed with Benedict in Istanbul's Blue Mosque last year, was also on the list, as was the popular Egyptian television preacher Amr Khaled.
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And all atheists and agnostics.
trying to before we take their bomb. Pakistan doesn’t count. Their leader still wears a necktie. The minute the ones who don’t know about the necktie get the bomb we are f-ed. Period. Why? They are scorpions riding the back of a turtle across the river. So to answer your question, they are hudna-ing to buy time.
that and they are scare s-less that people in places like Iraq and Afghanistan are waking up and turning toward Christianity or freedom or whatever is anathema to Islam. They see our boys and what they stand for and can’t help but be impressed.
BTTT!
the average muslim can’t even conceive of what we have going on. When the parents of the burned Iraqi kid landed in LA they said there was paradise on earth. They had no idea we were kicking ass in the living life department. The power is freaking out, no doubt.
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Too late, bozo. Surrender unconditionally and present your fanatics for execution or you’re pucked.
This is not a “call for peace” but a warning of war. They know Islam is resurgent and the West is in disarray. They are calling on us to submit to Islam, including sacrificing Israel and permitting broad new rights for Muslims in Western societies. If we do not do this, it will be seen as “attacking Islam”.
The only problem is: The Koran does not allow this.
Oh yes we can. We own most of those weapons, so we'll just blow your sorry murdering butts into vapor.
We are sick and tired of the ongoing Islamic crusades going on all over the world.
I realize that you Imams would like to return to the days when nobody was paying attention while you muzzies quietly slaughtered and converted, but that isn't going to happen anymore.
More and more people are waking up to what Islam is, and the Islamic crusades can't be hidden anymore behind media's claims of "rthnic clashes" hiding the true nature of these Islamic crusades.
HAHAHAHAHA! They had a chance to bring about a world caliphate? HAHAHAHAHA! not a chance. And don't kid yourself, they did and do stand up with AQ. There are many ways to contribute to jihad besides all out bloodshed. Someone has to do the organizing, the fundraising, the logistics etc. etc., and they do it while talking to you over the fence telling you what good peaceful muslims they are, lying right to your face.
So you think AQ is not being defeated? The MSM would agree with you.
AQ is just one small group among thousands- millions of others. What, do you think AQ controls all of Islam? That they make up and wrote the koran? that they invented a Mohammad somehow “different” than the ones all other Muslims follow?
Have you even a clue what Islam is? We can destroy a thousand AQ’s and a thousand more will pop up the next day.
They are churning out Jihadists as fast as they can pop them out of the womb and process them through the madarassa’s.
Islamic Jihad will not be defeated until the Koran is put to flames, permanently, and forgotten.
When islam starts allowing other faiths and creeds to live in islamic countries freely and without persecution, as equals; and not persecute them and treat them as second-class citizens (at best), or infidels to be killed (the reality), then maybe we can talk. Until that day comes, islam and its adherents can kiss my ass.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL1162787420071011
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Aref Ali Nayed, one of the signatories and a senior adviser to the Cambridge Interfaith Program at Cambridge University in Britain, said the signatories represented the "99.9 percent of Muslims" who follow mainstream schools and oppose extremism.
"In Islam we have had a problem for some time now where the mainstream voices are drowned out by a minority that choose violence," he said.
Nayed said organizers of the letter had set up an ad hoc network among Muslim leaders that could lead to more cooperation in future.
"These people don't take their signatures lightly," he said. "We are trying to institutionalize this so we don't lose it.
The overture to Christians could be followed by similar letters addressed to Jews or secularists, he added."
Sounds legitimate to me. Stay tuned.
“They are not asking to come over to your house for tea..they are saying that they don’t agree with the extremists.”
Where did they that?
Where did they say that?
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