articles about both the denunciation and King Hussein's declaration were on NPR at least a couple of weeks ago.
larry On 9/15/05, Vivec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well..the ending segment was equally interested. > > Did anyone know there was a meeting of the 138 most influential > islamic leaders of the world at which they publicly denounced > terrorism and extremism and made plans of actions on how to combat > what they called a scourge on their religion? > > That the King of Jordan issued what has become known as the Amman > decree that also renounces terrorism and extremists and states for all > that only recognised clergy can ever issue a fatwah or a religious > decree? > > These things are , for whatever reason, not publicised by popular > Western media, but they are known in Asia, the Middle East and other > parts of the world. But they tie in so very closely with the whole > 'War on Terror' to see what these countries are doing, what Muslims > are doing to fight the cancer eating away at their socieites. > > The Queen of Jordan (have you seen the Queen of Jordan? She has a > sophisticated beauty about her that is breathtaking) stated that to > fight extremism we need Education and oppurtunity. She said Extremism > takes over where other religious avenues seem to have failed a people. > Isolation, ignorance and having no oppurtunity are the real factors > that breed Extremists and combating those elements is where the real > War on Terror lies (my words for interpretation). > > They even touched on global warming, and targeted the US which did not > sign any Environmental treaties. Apparently the energy storage and > distribution in the US is woefully inefficient, and by simply > implementing improvements in these areas a lot of America's energy > problems could be solved within a year without building new power > plants! > > It really was amazing stuff. > > Over a million people in Latin America use solar panels to power > fridges lights and other appliances in their homes with a little solar > system on their roofs. Why not 2 million? why not a billion worldwide? > The issue of The Private Sector in the US seeing any sort of > Environmental safeguards as a threat to their business, and the US > standpoint of it being impossible to continue to be rich and to expand > without simply having to burn more fossil fules was also brought up. > Clinton suggested that it requires a shift in the thinking of the > Private Sector and an education as to how renewable energy can be even > more profitable to them (Although how to convince oil rich party > donators of that I don't know). > > I am definintely going to try to hunt down a transcript, and mark the > next time this shows to watch it again. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:174287 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
