Muslim-Christian seminar argues over inviting Jews

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Sun May-30-04 06:44 AM
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Muslim-Christian seminar argues over inviting Jews

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DOHA, May 30 (Reuters) - A Vatican-led conference on dialogue with Muslims ended in the Arab state of Qatar on Sunday after bickering over whether to allow Jews to participate in future meetings because of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The Emir of the Gulf state had opened the seminar by telling senior Muslim and Christian religious leaders that Jews should also take part.

"Perhaps it would be worthwhile widening next year's seminar to an Islamic-Christian-Jewish dialogue," Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani said in a speech delivered on his behalf on Thursday.

"That is the way to build a decent human life where love, tolerance and equality prevail for the good of mankind."

But Arab clerics told a public forum late on Saturday, that Israel must end its occupation of Palestinian land first.

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fujiyama

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Sun May-30-04 07:10 AM
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1. How about also inviting

secularists and non religious people?

Yeah right, like that will ever happen. If it's anything, religious fanatics will always get along better with religious fanatics of other religions than they will with athiests, agnostics, and free thinkers.

The real conflict isn't between religions. It's between those that wish to impose their religious beliefs on others, and those that will resist.

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Sun May-30-04 08:07 AM
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2. That's said

My Pir (head of my Sufi order) has held ecumenical conferences that include rabbis, priests, and ministers. His father, when head of the order, attended many ecumenical conferences which included people of all faiths. A practice that is done world-wide is the Dances of Universal Peace, where all are invited to participate in simple dances which repeat sacred phrases from all spiritual traditions. And then there's the annual Fez Music Festival, which invites musicians from different religious traditions to play and sing their sacred songs.

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