Dengan ajakan Paus ini maka susah juga buat orang Islam yang
selama ini bersikap diam dihadapan terorisme (yang jangan kita
lupa hampir semuanya adalah perbuatna orang Islam) untuk terus
diam...
Saya anggap desakan Paus ini sebagai dorongan bagi orang Islam
untuk memanusiawikan pemahaman ajaran agamanya...
Paus telah melakukan kewajiban morilnya untuk mendorong orang
Islam menjadi manusiawi...
Sekarang terpulang kepada orang Islam: terus berpangku tangan
dihadapan mayat yang bergelilmpangan dibunuhi orang Islam atau
mengambil langkah maju untuk memanusiawikan pemahaman ajaran
Islam.
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Pope urges Muslims to combat terrorism
BERLIN, Germany (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI decried the "cruel
fanaticism" of terrorism Saturday and urged Muslims to join
Christians in trying to combat its spread.
In blunt remarks, he told a gathering of Muslim officials in Germany
that Muslim leaders had a "great responsibility" in properly educating
their younger generations.
"I am certain that I echo your own thoughts when I bring up as one of
our concerns the spread of terrorism," Benedict told the Muslim
leadership, mainly Turks, in his most extensive remarks on terrorism
during his four-month papacy.
"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."
Benedict did not mention specific attacks or assess blame, but it
appeared significant that he chose a Muslim audience for his remarks
on terrorism.
"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," he
said.
The meeting, during Benedict's four-day trip to Germany for World
Youth Day, was part of the pope's outreach to non-Catholics to achieve
common positions on social issues and world peace.
There are some 3.5 million Muslims in Germany, one of the highest
figures in western Europe.
Going into Saturday's meeting, he had been cautious about making any
links between terrorism and Islam, rejecting the idea that the world
faced a "clash of civilizations" and reportedly overruling an aide who
wanted to brand the July 7 London bombings as anti-Christian.
But in warning Saturday that the world risked exposure to "the
darkness of a new barbarism," he stressed that Muslim leaders
must "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," the pontiff said.
By working together, Catholics and Muslims could "turn back the wave
of cruel fanaticism that endangers the lives of so many people and
hinders progress toward world peace," he said.
The pope spoke of terrorism striking in "various parts of the world"
but did not mention any specific attacks.
Israel sharply criticized the Vatican last month after Benedict
condemned terrorist attacks in Britain, Egypt, Iraq and Turkey but did
not mention a suicide bombing in Israel that killed five Israelis.
Benedict also alluded to another of his themes -- the need for
reciprocity in religious freedom for Christians and other minorities
in some Islamic countries. He did not name any but said "the defense
of religious freedom ... is a permanent imperative and respect for
minorities is a clear sign of true civilization."
The meeting with Muslims came a day after Benedict visited the
Cologne synagogue to meet with Jewish leaders and met with Protestant
and Orthodox Christian representatives.
Earlier Saturday, Benedict met with Gerhard Schroeder and the German
chancellor's challenger in Sept. 18 elections, Angela Merkel, in a
courtesy visit.
Merkel, leader of the Christian Democratic Union and the daughter of a
Protestant minister, said after the meeting that "it was a great joy
to see the Holy Father. It was great to meet a German pope on German
soil."
Schroeder, who also is Protestant, as are about a third of Germans,
had no immediate public comment.
After the day's meetings, Benedict was to move to the Marienfeld, a
former coal mine outside Cologne for an outdoor evening service as
part of the festival that has drawn more than 400,000 young people.
Many of them made plans to come when John Paul II, the founder of the
festival, was still alive and are eager to get to know his successor.
Many of the pilgrims at Saturday's vigil were expected to spend the
night under the open sky to attend Sunday morning's concluding Mass
celebrated by Benedict. Organizers say they expect as many as 1
million to attend.
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