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Universal cosmopolitanism
Appiah theory explains that people are living in the different part of the world having something common in them. Different activities such as watching movies, eating, buying things, reading books and newspapers, attending parties and funerals. They have also some universal values like kindness and generosity. He argues that these are important points in cross cultural conversation and believe in human dignity across the nation, to share these goals with people in many countries by speaking different languages. The people of the world make full use of World Wide Web. They never go to war against any country, but they enlist in a campaign against any nation that they get in the way of universal justices (Appiah, 2006, Cosmopolitanism, Ethics in a World of Strangers, p.137).They are the Muslim fundamentalists that are recruiting ground for Al Qaeda and these fundamentalists illustrate universal ethics which destroy the real picture of cosmopolitanism and in the absence of toleration easily turned to murder.
Appiah theory gives the example of Christian and Muslim fundamentalists who are searching a community of those people who share their faith and rejects all local and national loyalty, having no tolerance for religious differences. Appiah says that we should be careful about such fundamentalist groups and he rejects that type of universal community because they led to murder and we can learn a lesson from the history of war in Europe.
His “cosmopolitan theory believes in universal truth. It is realistic that how hard is the truth to find. Once truth we hold, however, is that every human being has an obligation to every other, everybody matters: that is our central idea. And it sharply limits the scope o...

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...least some forms of partiality” (Appiah, The Ethics of Identity, p.222, 223).
Appiah theory of cosmopolitanism is demanding for global justice in a religiously diverse society. According to Appiah the United Nations are the largest and most ambitious organizations which are responsible for promoting justice and peace in the World. The United Nations peace process in Rwanda, Liberia, Uganda, Palestine, Sarilanka, Myanmar and occupied Kashmir are very useful. The International Criminal Courts (ICC) has given the charge with crimes against humanity, including crimes, murder, forcible deportation, torture and persecution in the name of religion, ethnicity or gender. The ICC has charged dictator and mass murder from Sudan, Congo and recently from Liberia. The UN Security Council measures to protect the Kurdish population of Iraq, restoring peace and security in Haiti.

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