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John,
I appareciated your reply. 
Elsa

--- John Cock <jpc2025 at triad.rr.com> wrote:

> Sorry, meant this for George.
> 
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> From: John Cock [mailto:jpc2025 at triad.rr.com] 
> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 12:12 PM
> To: 'Order Ecumenical Community'
> Subject: What do you think? Thanks...
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> (fri)October 26      Emerging Voice of Mainstream
> Islam
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> A total of 138 of the world’s top Muslim leaders,
> clerics and academics have written an open letter to
> the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury and other
> leaders of the Christian world. . . . [Professor
> Aref Ali Nayed] said: “Christians and Muslims make
> up more than half the world’s population . . . and
> when you look at the weapons in the hands of those
> people . . . and the violence of terrorism, it’s
> easy to see how dangerous it is for there to be so
> little understanding.” ~Robert Pigott, “Emerging
> Voice of Mainstream Islam,” 
> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7040774.stm>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7040774.stm via
> George Holcombe
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> George says, “This may be the most important piece
> of news of the year.” Thank goodness those who
> better understand Islam’s teachings on “one
> God” and “love your neighbor as yourself” are
> finding their voice. ~jpc
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> “Neighbor” at least includes all humans and the
> earth community. Namaste.
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> From: oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net
> [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of
> George Holcombe
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 11:14 PM
> To: Order Ecumenical Community; ICA LIST SERVE
> Subject: [Oe List ...] Muslim letter in BBC
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> 
> This may be the most important piece of news of the
> year. 
> 
> George Holcombe
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> Emerging voice of mainstream Islam
> 
> By Robert Pigott�
> Religious affairs correspondent, BBC News
> 
> 
> A total of 138 of the world's top Muslim leaders,
> clerics and academics have written an open letter to
> the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury and other
> leaders of the Christian world.
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> It warns that world peace depends on better dialogue
> between them, and points to the fundamental beliefs
> each have in common.
> 
> But the real significance of the initiative lies in
> the creation of a powerful new lobby in world
> politics.
> 
> It is certainly not the first time that Christian
> and Muslim leaders have referred to their shared
> values and traditions.
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> In the years of tension since 9/11 it has been a
> frequent accompaniment to inter-faith meetings and
> projects aimed to mend the fractured and suspicious
> relationship between some Muslims and Christians.
> 
> But the letter, written by ayatollahs, muftis,
> sheikhs, sultans, professors and ministers, has
> taken this assertion of cousinly - even brotherly -
> relations to another level.
> 
> That is partly because the signatories have a
> considerable personal influence, in countries as
> diverse as Russia, Egypt, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia,
> Malaysia and Yemen.
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> 
> Scripture
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> "Looking down the list of signatories, there is one
> person after another with large followings, often
> numbered in millions," said David Ford, professor of
> divinity at Cambridge University.
> 
> "The fact that they've signed it means it will be
> taken seriously at the grass roots."
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> Now finally there is a platform, a mode, for the
> moderate, mainstream, traditional Muslim leaders to
> come together and find consensus�
> David Ford, professor of divinity at Cambridge
> University
> 
> Just what are the revelations that this impressive
> cast-list has signed up to?
> 
> The letter contains a clearly written account of the
> passages in the Koran and the Bible that illustrate
> close similarities in the most fundamental doctrine
> of Christianity and Islam.
> 
> For example each of them insists that followers
> worship only one God, and requires them to love
> their neighbours as themselves. Other passages
> strike a note of conciliation, even humility.
> 
> For example, there is the Koran's acknowledgement
> that the truths revealed to the Prophet Muhammad -
> the founder of Islam - had already been shown to the
> prophets of the Old Testament (the Jewish Torah) and
> the New Testament, including, of course, Jesus
> himself.
> 
> The document also picks out the verses in the Koran
> which tell Muslims that they should treat the
> followers of these Jewish and Christian prophets
> with particular friendship and respect.
> 
> It also cites the Koran's specific instruction that
> these "people of the Scripture" worship the same God
> as Muslims.
> 
> But the real significance of this gesture, is that
> it is the first act of a group that intends to
> become the "international voice" of mainstream
> Islam, missing for so long.
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> It's easy to see how dangerous it is for there to be
> so little understanding�
> Professor Aref Ali Nayed
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> It has been one of the problems of dialogue between
> Christians and Muslims that Islam has lacked a
> coherent mainstream view.
> 
> It has little of the hierarchies that characterise
> Churches, headed by leaders who can credibly
> represent the faith.
> 
> Not only is there no Muslim pope, but there is
> barely a single voice, or even group of voices,
> generally acknowledged to speak for "global Islam".
> 
> It has produced a vacuum into which it has been easy
> for extremists to move, whether locally in a town or
> city, 
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