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Date: August 12, 2008 at 10:22:26
From: Interfaith Encounter, []
Subject: "Islamic Attitude Towards Judaism" - |
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On July 15th the Interfaith Encounter Association's students' group
in Tel Aviv University hosted two special guests from the Science and
Research Foundation, founded by the Islamic thinker Harun Yahya -
Istanbul, Turkey. The two lecturers presented their view of the good
attitude of Islam towards Judaism.
First spoke Dr. Oktar Babuna who spoke about the fact that the Koran
sees faithful Jews as believers who submit to God, just as Muslims.
The Koran (5:44) acknowledges the divinity of the Torah and allows
for Muslims to befriend with Jews and eat their food.
Radicalism, which is the wish to promote significant and abrupt
change through hard line and uncompromising policy, existed in all
three religions and was always a result of lack in real religious
education.
The Islamic moral forbids extremism. Any one who kills one human is
as if he killed the whole of humanity. The real roots of extremist
approaches are in anti-religious and materialistic views.
The way to counter extremism is through cooperation of the Abrahamic
religions to promote the faith in God and the morals that is derived
from that faith. There are, of course, differences between the
religions - due to differences in nature and circumstances - but the
common basic principles are a strong enough basis for joint
improvement of the world. Such common principles are for example:
prayer and its power, promotion of justice, support of God in his
believers etc.
The Koran (3:64) calls Jews for cooperation in the promotion of the
faith in one God. Jews, Muslims and Christians should be living in
peace and joint prosperity (Koran 5:69 and 3:64).
Followed Dr. Cihat Gundogdu who stressed that there is no such thing
as "Islamic terrorism"; since there is no way to reconcile the Holy
Book of the Koran with terrorism, even though some terrorists carry a
Muslim identity.
In all three religions, killing of innocent is a crime that brings
torment in Hell. The religions encourage love and compassion, while
terrorism comes from secular ideologies.
Karen Armstrong, in her book "The True, Peaceful Face of Islam,
stresses that the word "Jihad" does not mean "Holy War", but rather a
struggle. A struggle of the human with his urges.
Ramuz el Hadith Vol. 1, 8/48 says that even in war it is forbidden to
hurt elderly people, women or children. In 76/12 it adds: not even
trees or houses.
Suicide is strictly forbidden by Islam (Koran 4:29).
The Koran calls for respect to Synagogues as well as Churches
(22:10).
The Interfaith Encounter Association
P.O.Box 3814, Jerusalem 91037, Israel
Phone: +972-2-6510520
Fax: +972-2-6510557
Website: www.interfaith-encounter.org
Board:
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Rabbi Dr. Dov Maimon, Vice-Chair
Ms. Rafiqa Othman, Vice-Chair
Mr. Adnan Trabsha, Vice-Chair
Ms. Saheer Siam
Mr. Dotan Arad
Ms. Nada Abu Zaidan
Dr. Yehuda Stolov, Director
E-mail: yeh...@interfaith-encounter.org
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