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Preventing Conflict by Understanding Islam |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / ESSAYS |
| Author: Rev. David Alan Hart |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2005 |
| Size: 1,495 Words, 8,835 Characters |
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The following article was first delivered as an address at a conference titled "Beyond Coexistence Toward a New Culture of Peace: Focus on the Middle East," which was held February 27-March 2, 2003, in Washington, D.C. It was later published in the book Middle East Peace Initiative (IIFWP, 2003).
One of the qualities that colonial powers are rather short on is the religious virtue of humility. But all the more reason for it to be attended to, I would argue, at a time of international crisis. The USA and the UK above all in the current situation as their governments are calling upon them to arms as the means of settling international problems need I believe to recall at this time the limitations of their colonial powers, of our colonial powers, and our current political per...
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...nd within the positive and healthy context of a conference such as this, by forging a way forward with our friends, by sharing, laughing, and praying together, we can surely work for a global faith that can include us all, no matter how large or small the faith that we represent.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much.
© 2003 Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace
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