Muslims Seek Cooperationwith Christians As A Step Toward Peace

[Elphaba]

Muslims Seek Cooperation With Christians as a Step Toward Peace

By Neil MacFarquhar

In a 29-page letter, representatives of many facets of Muslim life have petitioned their Christian counterparts to help find steps to be taken toward erasing the misunderstandings about each other that often lead to violence.

Scores of Muslim clerics, theologians and academics issued an open letter yesterday to all Christian leaders saying the two religions need to work more closely together, given that they share the basic principles of worshiping one God and loving thy neighbor.

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Among the 138 signatories were senior theologians from around the world, including Sheik Ali Gomaa, the grand mufti of Egypt and hence the top Sunni Muslim figure there, as well as about a dozen other grand muftis. Ayatollah Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad, a Shiite Muslim from Iran, also signed.

Muslims Seek Cooperation with Christians

This is very encouraging to me, as I am openly critical of Muslims not standing up against their fellow Muslims who create so much bloodshed. It appears there is a movement that I, and so many others, have longed for coming to fruition.

I only wish I saw Muslim women in this process. Until they have a voice, I do not trust Islam's law of Sharia to protect them.

Elphaba

[Traveler]

You noticed this also? I have some very good Muslim friends – but rather go into the details I would add that the western press cannot get anything right. I am only a little concerned with how easy the western press swallows propaganda.

The truth is that the Muslim nation (a religious definition) has been on the verge of civil war for many generations. Despots in power have so abused power that I am ashamed the world has remained so ignorant. And I am not talking about cutting off some poor girl’s head for adultery. I am talking about a majority of citizens not being allowed to go to a beach in their country, hold a political office (or even be a policeman, fireman or be in the military). I am talking about young boys and girls (in the tens of thousands) arrested without charges and held for years without any outside contact to pressure the families of political opposition. It is interesting that some of the worse abuses have been in Bahrain that is kept in power because the most important military base for the USA navy in the Persian Gulf is there.

And all this on top of the richest oil in the world and already everybody is taking sides – and I am not sure one side is any better than the other. The sad thing is there are many good Muslim people that just want a life. They want to enjoy their families – but of the Muslims I know that have left their home land – they all fear going home and what they will do to each other more than they fear what anyone outside the Muslim nation will do to them. One friend told me that after 9/11 they were afraid to leave their home because of some of the hate here in the USA – but even with all that they told me that they felt their families were safer here than in their home land.

I wonder what is behind this hand of fellowship.

The Traveler

[boyando]

Muslims Seek Cooperation With Christians as a Step Toward Peace

By Neil MacFarquhar

In a 29-page letter, representatives of many facets of Muslim life have petitioned their Christian counterparts to help find steps to be taken toward erasing the misunderstandings about each other that often lead to violence.

Scores of Muslim clerics, theologians and academics issued an open letter yesterday to all Christian leaders saying the two religions need to work more closely together, given that they share the basic principles of worshiping one God and loving thy neighbor.

<snip>

Among the 138 signatories were senior theologians from around the world, including Sheik Ali Gomaa, the grand mufti of Egypt and hence the top Sunni Muslim figure there, as well as about a dozen other grand muftis. Ayatollah Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad, a Shiite Muslim from Iran, also signed.

Muslims Seek Cooperation with Christians

This is very encouraging to me, as I am openly critical of Muslims not standing up against their fellow Muslims who create so much bloodshed. It appears there is a movement that I, and so many others, have longed for coming to fruition.

I only wish I saw Muslim women in this process. Until they have a voice, I do not trust Islam's law of Sharia to protect them.

Elphaba

Stop it, your scarring me, lol. You are using the words of a conservative.

Love Ya - Your Bro

[Elphaba]

Stop it, your scarring me, lol. You are using the words of a conservative.

Love Ya - Your Bro

Hey Bro,

It's like I keep trying to tell you. Republican or Democrat, theist or atheist, <strike>man</strike> or <strike>women</strike>, our thinker is not always that black and white. (Sorry, I had to scratch that last one out.

I love you!

Elphaba

[boyando]

<div class='quotemain'>Stop it, your scarring me, lol. You are using the words of a conservative.

Love Ya - Your Bro

Hey Bro,

It's like I keep trying to tell you. Republican or Democrat, theist or atheist, <strike>man</strike> or <strike>women</strike>, our thinker is not always that black and white. (Sorry, I had to scratch that last one out.

I love you!

Elphaba

Ya, but can you get some more liberals to think like you do, in this case. I throw down the challenge, because I find that there are people out there, who will agree with you in this case, just to make sure that a conservative, is wrong.

[Holly3278]

Interesting. I hope they are sincere and really do want peace. If they do then perhaps we can get peace.

[susieSA]

Interesting. I hope they are sincere and really do want peace. If they do then perhaps we can get peace.

Would you be so kind as to clarify what exactly you mean here?