Posted on 06/22/2008 12:56:52 PM PDT by Coffee200am
JAKARTA, INDONESIA - WORLD leaders in religion, politics and business will gather in the Indonesian capital this week for a conference to address 'facets of violence' and its solutions, organisers said on Sunday.
Muhammadiyah, Indonesia's second largest Muslim movement with some 30 million adherents, will host the second 'World Peace Forum' between June 24 and 26, with more than 200 participants expected to attend.
'This is not just an interfaith dialogue. We invite leaders in business, politics, media and academics to sit together and find solutions for peace,' Muhammadiyah chairman Din Syamsuddin told journalists.
'Violence is a reality, but what can be done? We will try to pin down practical solutions to address the problem,' he said.
The meeting will be opened by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, while the prime ministers of New Zealand, Australia and Thailand, among others, will convey written and video messages.
The first World Peace Forum took place in 2006 and was attended by around 100 religious and business leaders, academics, journalists and civil society activists. -- AFP
Miryam Rashid
Miryam Rashid, Interim Director of the Middle East Program of the American Friends Service Committee - Chicago, lived in the occupied West Bank for 5 years, some of that time during the first Intifada. She sees peace as inseparable from recognition of Palestinian human rights.
Cindy Corrie
Cindy Corrie's daughter Rachel was killed by an Israeli soldier driving a bulldozer as she non-violently protested the demolition of a Palestinian home. Cindy Corrie continues Rachel's pursuit of sustainable peace, one rooted in justice for all.
“Violence is a reality, but what can be done?”
Eradicate Islam?
Don’t be absurd. Eliminating islam won’t eliminate violence
Eliminating islam would only eliminate 90% of the world’s conflicts.
And I thought a paradox couldn't exist within normal four dimensional reality.
Than I read further and realized it was a peace conference in the same way sitting down to plan a murder is a peace conference, your victim will be getting all the peace he can handle, in the grave.
Paradox averted, the fabric of space-time is preserved.
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That title is an oxymoron, isn’t it? Where would one find “peace” and “islam” mentioned in the same sentence?
Muslim plan for world peace?
Kill all the Jews and convert everyone else to Islam or kill them too.
Once that’s done, everything will be nice and peaceful.
Simple, right?
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