Di Palestina, para "teroris" melawan penjajahan
Israel.
Di Iraq dan Afghanistan, para teroris melawan
penjajahan AS dan sekutu.
Jadi yang harus dibasmi teroris atau penjajah?
--- Lina Dahlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pope Urges Muslims to Help Defeat Terrorism
>
> Pope Benedict shakes hands with Elyas during their
> meeting in
> Cologne. (Reuters).
>
>
> COLOGNE, Germany, August 21 (IslamOnline.net & News
> Agencies) Pope
> Benedict XVI has used the first foreign trip of his
> pontificate to
> urge Muslim leaders to help defeat terrorism which
> he said aims at
> poisoning ties between Christians and Muslims.
>
> "I am certain that I echo your own thoughts when I
> bring up as one
> of our concerns the spread of terrorism," he said in
> the prepared
> text of an address to some 20 leaders of Muslim
> communities across
> Germany, reported Reuters.
>
> "Terrorist activity is continually recurring in
> various parts of the
> world, sowing death and destruction, and plunging
> many of our
> brothers and sisters into grief and despair.
>
> "Those who instigate and plan these attacks
> evidently wish to poison
> our relations, making use of all means, including
> religion, to
> oppose every attempt to build a peaceful, fair and
> serene life
> together," said the 78-year-old pontiff.
>
> In July, Pope Benedict overruled aides who had
> wanted him to brand
> the London terror attacks as "anti-Christian" and
> instead called
> them "acts against humanity" in his official
> condemnation.
>
> The July 7 attacks, in which four British Muslims
> killed themselves
> and 52 others, drew condemnations from Muslim
> scholars across the
> world.
>
> A statement issued by over forty leading mosque
> imams, muftis and
> scholars representing all sections of Muslims in
> Britain stressed
> that "there can never be any excuse for taking an
> innocent life".
>
> The scholars asserted that those behind the July 7
> London bombings,
> which killed at least 56 people, can not consider
> themselves martyrs.
>
> United Against Terror
>
> In the most straightforward and forceful language he
> has used on the
> topic since his election in April, the Pope said the
> world would be
> exposed to "the darkness of a new barbarism" unless
> religions worked
> together to combat terrorism.
>
> He told the Muslim leaders that all believers had to
> do their part
> in condemning terror.
>
> "If together we can succeed in eliminating from
> hearts any trace of
> rancor, in resisting every form of intolerance and
> in opposing every
> manifestation of violence, we will turn back the
> wave of cruel
> fanaticism that endangers the lives of so many
> people and hinders
> progress towards world peace," said the pontiff.
>
> He underlined the key role played by teachers in the
> process.
>
> "You guide Muslim believers and train them in the
> Islamic faith.
> Teaching is the vehicle through which ideas and
> convictions are
> transmitted.
>
> "Words are highly influential in the education of
> the mind. You
> therefore have a great responsibility for the
> formation of the
> younger generation," said Pope Benedict.
>
> Bridges of Friendship
>
> The meeting with the Muslim community was a key part
> of Benedict's
> pledge to use his four-month-old pontificate to
> build "bridges of
> friendship" with the world's other monotheistic
> religions, reported
> Agence France-Presse (AFP).
>
> He told Muslim leaders he was "profoundly convinced
> that we must not
> yield to negative pressures in our midst, but affirm
> the values of
> mutual respect, solidarity and peace."
>
> The pontiff stressed there was "no room for apathy
> and
> disengagement, and even less for partiality and
> sectarianism."
>
> Acknowledging that Christians too had killed in
> God's name in the
> past -- a reference to the Crusades -- he said both
> Christians and
> Muslims had to learn from their past conflicts.
>
> "How many pages of history record battles and even
> wars that have
> been waged, with both sides invoking the name of
> God, as if fighting
> and killing the enemy could be pleasing to him," he
> said.
>
> "The recollection of these sad events should fill us
> with shame, for
> we know only too well what atrocities have been
> committed in the
> name of religion."
>
> He went on: "We must seek paths of reconciliation
> and learn to live
> with respect for each other's identity."
>
> In a meeting with leading German officials Saturday,
> the pontiff
> stressed the need for Islamic religious studies in
> German schools
> along the lines of the curriculum currently offered
> for Catholic and
> Protestant pupils.
>
> Common Enemy
>
> Nadeem Elyas, the president of the Central Council
> of Muslims in
> Germany, described terrorism as "the common enemy of
> Christians and
> Muslims."
>
> He hoped the meeting with the pope would serve as a
> "motivation for
> the individual believers in the churches and in the
> mosques to
> participate in a positive dialogue."
>
> Elyas regretted that all too often, "both sides
> lacked the courage
> and the trust" to reach out to one another,
> according to Deutsche
> Welle Web site.
>
> A better understanding and tolerance needs to be
> installed through
> education, he said.
>
> Christians and Muslims share many topics of common
> interest such as
> the loss of moral orientation among youth and the
> increasing absence
> of religion in young people's lives, the Muslim
> leader pointed out.
>
> Around 3.5 million Muslims live in Germany, two
> million of whom are
> of Turkish origin.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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