Building Bridges: Overcoming Obstacles in Christian-Muslim Relations

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dsfsCitain this January to take part in a seminar entitled "Building Bridges: Overcoming Obstacles in Christian-Muslim Relations". Tony Blair also praised these Christians and Muslims for coming together at the conference being hosted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, to promote post-September 11 dialogue. The is same George Carey who in November 2000 said he believed the use of military force, which has resulted in the murder of tens of thousands of Muslim lives in Afghanistan, was necessary”. Opening the two day seminar at Lambeth Palace, the mischievous globe trotting prime minister of Britain hailed the growing significance of inter-faith dialogue as a contribution to solving world conflicts and defeating "warped and perverted" religious extremism. "Dialogue finds its echo in the wider community where people do not have the understanding that they should have of the common values, heritage and traditions that unite faiths," he told the Muslim and Christian attendees. Those present, included from the Muslims Prince Hassan of Jordan, and Mustafa Ceric, the Grand Mufti of Bosnia.

The meetings were in private and their deliberations are not expected to be made public for some time. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey, is also to sign an agreement with the Grand Imam of al-Azhar al-Sharif, Dr Mohamed Sayed Tantawy as part of another programme of dialogue between Anglicans and Muslims. The signing will take place during a ceremony at Lambeth Palace on January 30th. To establish ” brotherly relations” the agreement states.

The idea of interfaith dialogue: The idea of interfaith dialogue which is being circulated nowadays, is a foreign, evil and western idea which has no basis in Islam. This is because it calls for mutual partnership between religions. So it calls for a new fabricated religion which the Muslims will profess instead of Islam because the advocates and those who call for this idea are the western kuffar themselves. This idea is not a new one but started internationally in 1932 when France sent representatives to negotiate with the men and scholars of al-Azhar about the idea of uniting the three religions; Islam, Christianity and Judaism.

After the failure of Kafir westerners in distancing the Muslims from their ‘Aqeedah via the missionaries, orientalists, cultural works, the media intellectual and political deception, they resorted to official ways in their countries and the in the countries of their agents. They began to hold

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