congrats to you Kieth always on the ball Irv ******************************************************************** -----Original Message----- >From: Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 21, 2007 6:58 AM >To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org >Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Open letter from Islam to Christianity > >Stephen R Walmsley wrote: > >>Perhaps they should state they deplore the attacks of 911..... or do they? > >You read it then, did you? I'll bet you didn't. > >So you expect them to apologise for 9/11? Do you feel that Islam is >to blame for it? > >And you think that's what this is all about? > >Might it not perhaps have a little to do with all the toxic >"Islamo-fascist" -cum-"War of Civilisations" etc etc etc crusader BS >that gets flung about by US nutcases these days? > >Would you have preferred it if they'd waited for the US to apologise >for that first? Or maybe for what your war criminals have been doing >in Iraq and Afghanistan and have got the hots for doing in Iran too? >But the Muslims are the guilty ones, eh? > >The full letter's here, why don't you give it a read? > >http://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/cip/documents/COMMONWORDFINAL091007.pdf > >Keith > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >>Bob Molloy >>Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 6:26 PM >>To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >>Subject: [Biofuel] Open letter from Islam to Christianity >> >> >> >> >>138 Muslim Scholars Issue Open Letter to Christian Religious Leaders >>| IslamToday / Agencies| >> >>11 October 2007 >> >>138 of the world's leading Muslim scholars and intellectuals from all >>branches of Islam (Sunni and Shia, Salafi and Sufi, liberal and >>conservative) had come together to write a letter entitled "A Common Word >>Between Us and You," to the world's Christian leaders. >> >>The drafting of the letter was organized by the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute >>for Islamic Thought in Amman, Jordan. Though its message has been said by >>Muslim scholars many times before, it is the first time so many high-profile >>Muslims have come together in public to make such a unified call for peace. >> >>The letter was launched first in Jordan this morning, and then in other >>countries over the course of the day, the letter gets its final unveiling at >>a joint press conference in Washington D.C. this afternoon by Mustafa Ceric, >>Grand Mufti of Bosnia, and John Esposito, Director of the Prince Alwaleed >>Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown >>University. >> >>In a display of unprecedented unity, the letter - which calls for peace >>between the world's Christians and Muslims - is signed by no fewer than 19 >>current and former grand ayatollahs and grand muftis from countries as >>diverse as Egypt, Turkey, Russia, Syria, Jordan, and Palestine. War-torn >>Iraq was represented by both Shi'ites and Sunnis. >> >>It is addressed to Christianity's most powerful leaders, including the pope, >>the archbishop of Canterbury and the heads of the Lutheran, Methodist and >>Baptist churches, and, in 15 pages laced with Qur'anic and Biblical >>scriptures, argues that the most fundamental tenets of Islam and >>Christianity are identical: love of one (and the same) God, and love of >>one's neighbor. >> >>On this basis the letter reasons that harmony between the two religions is >>not only necessary for world peace, it is natural. >> >>"As Muslims, we say to Christians that we are not against them and that >>Islam is not against them - so long as they do not wage war against Muslims >>on account of their religion, oppress them and drive them out of their homes >>. Our very eternal souls are all at stake if we fail to sincerely make every >>effort to make peace," the letter reads. >> >>"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," >> >>"It's an astonishing achievement of solidarity," says David Ford, director >>of the Cambridge University's Interfaith Program. "I hope it will be able to >>set the right key note for relations between Muslims and Christians in the >>21st century, which have been lacking since September 11." >> >>One profound obstacle to establishing positive relations among mainstream >>Muslim and Christian groups, argues Ford, has been the lack of a single, >>authoritative Muslim voice to participate in such a dialogue. This letter >>changes that. "It proves that Islam can have an unambiguous, unified voice," >>says Aref Ali Nayed, a leading Islamic scholar and one of the letter's >>authors. >> >>Sources: >> >>Emily Flynn Vencat, "Giving Peace a Chance" Newsweek October 11, 2007 >> >>Peter Graff, "Unprecedented Muslim call for peace with Christians" Reuters >>October 11, 2007 >> >>Jumana Farouky, "Muslim Leaders Send Peace Message" Time October 11, 2007 >>=================QQQQQQQQQQQ========== > > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
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