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...page letter - entitled "A Common Word between Us and You" - is addressed to Pope Benedict XVI, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and 25 other named Christian leaders and "Leaders of Christian Churches, everywhere". Organized by the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought in Amman, Jordan, it's the first time so many high-profile Muslims have come together to make such a public call for peace. 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...
...general of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan; Hasan Shariatmadari, head of the Iranian National Republicans party; and Sheikh Ikrima Said Sabri, former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Imam of Al-Aqsa Mosque. "This is a determination by mainstream, traditional Muslim scholars and authorities who cover all the branches of Islam, and that's very unusual," says David Ford, Director of the Inter-Faith Program at the University of Cambridge, who helped launch the letter in London this morning. "It is unapologetic - but not aggressive, not defensive - and is genuinely hospitable in all directions. It's also modest. It doesn...
...Quoting from both holy texts, the letter notes that "whilst Islam and Christianity are obviously different religions - and whilst there is no minimizing some of their formal differences," both require believers to believe in only one god, and it's the same god. It points out that both religions are founded on goodwill, not violence, and that many of the fundamental truths that were revealed to Muhammad - such as the necessity for the total devotion to God, the rejection of false gods, and the love of fellow human beings - are the same ones that came to other Christian and Jewish...
...delegation of students from the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS) joined more than 2,000 congregants in Roxbury, Mass., on Friday night to attend the first-ever prayer session at the Islamic Society of Boston (ISB) Cultural Center, which finally opened its doors after two decades of controversy and delays. “I feel very comfortable—like at home,” HIS President Shaheer A. Rizvi ’08 said. “I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time.” Rizvi and several other HIS members made...
Peter King, security adviser to presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, on the state of Islam in the U.S. King later said his comment--made as he was talking about too many Americans sympathizing with radical Islamists and not enough Muslim leaders cooperating with law enforcement--was taken out of context...