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Rome's chief rabbi pays landmark visit to mosque, urges coexistence with
Jews
By Reuters
ROME - Rome's chief rabbi paid a landmark visit to the capital's mosque
yesterday, calling for greater dialogue betweens Jews and Muslims to promote
peace.
Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni's visit to the sprawling mosque on Rome's
outskirts, one of the largest in Europe, was the first by a chief rabbi of Rome
since it opened in 1995.
"We must contribute to creating the conditions for peace," he said in an
address to Muslim leaders. "We have a duty to promote dialogue and this is what
we are trying to do."
The visit took place less than two weeks after Roman Catholic and Jewish
leaders met at the Vatican and agreed that they should widen their dialogue to
involve Muslims in the wake of tension over the publication of newspaper
cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
Di Segni encouraged Muslims, who have overtaken Jews as the
second-largest religious group in Italy after Roman Catholics, to become full
members of the community.
"As Italian Jews who have been here for 20 centuries, we had a very long
relationship with Italian authorities and we have managed to find solutions and
models of coexistence," he said.
"We think our experience can be very useful to you in this very difficult
process of integration."
Abdellah Redouane, head of the Islamic cultural institute based in the
mosque complex, said the cartoon controversy was an example of how Jews and
Muslims could work together.
"I want to thank the Jewish community for the solidarity they showed
toward Muslims when, recently, the Prophet Mohammed was ridiculed and insulted
with offensive cartoons that were simply not funny," Redouane said.
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