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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A few nukes would cripple their entire Islamic nations’ military....
Surrender or die with us. Seems clear to me?
There are always exceptions. They tagged the Jews as “it”.
Trust has to be earned.
Unprecedented? Hardly. This is the way they operate. Their call for peace is actually a call for Christians to capitulate to Muslims.
Muslims are liars. It’s in their book.
BTTT
The Koran instructs Muslims to establish truces with infidels in order to strengthen their resources and prepare for a better fight.
There is no truce.
Not until the radical militants are eliminated and sent to their virgins.
They are not asking to come over to your house for tea..they are saying that they don't agree with the extremists.
lol
They "voted" against the extremists with their absence. AQ is finished.
They should've instead sent that letter to the lunatic leaders of Islam.
They're either telling us to surrender or they're lying again.
Why is it only since we [the USA] FINALLY "intervened" in Afghanistan and Iraq do these 130 purveyors of doom, worry about the relations between Muslims and Christians??
Sucks to be them...
“They who?” The Muslims of course. Duh.
You should have read the post that I was responding to first.
“...every culture and reliegion has it’s nutcases.”
I don’t do moral and cultural relativity. I think the Muslims have the nutcase market cornered. We probably disagree.
“They are not asking to come over to your house for tea..they are saying that they don’t agree with the extremists.”
I know perfectly well what they are saying. But words are meaningless without actions. It is also very telling that they exclude the Jews.
Trust has to be earned.
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