Supervisor Elham AbolFateh
Editor in Chief Mohamed Wadie

Human Brotherhood & Religious, Cultural, Ethnic Divesity


Mon 03 Feb 2020 | 04:14 PM
Yassmine Elsayed

Based on common human values and principles that enhance social peace and coexistence and bridge perse groups in humanity, the Muslim World League will kick off an international onference next Tuesday, titled: “Human Brotherhood for Enhancement of Security and Peace” in Zagreb, Croatia.

The conference which is organized in cooperation with Meshihat of Islamic Community in Croatia, brings together some international experts, intellectuals, professors, scientists and officials.

I will participate in the conference with a paper on human brotherhood and the religious and ethnic persity, a topic that concerns private and public opinion in an ever changing international system.

It became clear for everyone that dialogue between the pine religions remains insufficient today; it is not religion that brings together terrorists, but rather the religious ignorance is what uniting them.

In addition, it is certainly clear that the world now faces many challenges, new in their type, they drive their danger from betraying, distorting and exploiting the pine message and there is a common conviction about the necessity of building a single human family because the values ​​that underlie monotheistic religions contribute to the rationalization of the world system as well as achieving reconciliation and rapprochement between its components.

There is no doubt that the three main religions are based on mercy with people, and include human principles capable of making people happy, achieving their hopes, and solving their problems.

All of us are today invited to get these principles into effect, via connecting with each other, whoever they were. This is to establish a world with justice, peace and mercy, but also to open a new chapter in civilizational relations between different people, based on mutual respect, cooperation in development, preserving human dignity.

Religious and cultural persity in human societies calls for the establishment of a fair partnership and positive communication within a social contract agreed upon by all, to invest the multiplicity of visions in enriching civil and cultural life, and to achieve comprehensive development.

A meaningful dialogue between all is necessary to understand the true message of religion that extremism has attempted to hide and forge the meanings of its texts, while fighting calls for hatred, exclusion and arrogance, get the world rid of violence and counter-extremism, and establish sincere alliances that promote a correct understanding of the other, and invest in partnership with it in human good.

The well-known Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf recently published a valuable book he called "The Sinking of Civilizations" printed by well-known French publishing house, and he presented a different thesis to that of Samuel Huntington after the end of the Cold War, which he called the theory of the clash of civilizations.

Mr. Maalouf does not deviate from the givens that we defend, because he believes that separating peoples from one another is an impossible issue, in addition to the fact that civilizations are intrinsically linked.

According to him, there are emerging nations that are appearing strongly, by time, on the international arena that is dominated by the arms race. In addition, there are serious threats related to climate, environment and health, which do affect all on the planet, and therefore "we will only be able to confront them via  comprehensive solidarity.. which is the only way before us to escape from the threats against us. "

At the same time, the writer reinforces his thesis "The Drowning of Civilizations" by emphasizing the state of major transformations in the international level which impact civilizations. The United States of America, for instance,  witnesses radical changes and it is about to lose its moral credibility in the world, which negatively affects its image world wide.

As for the European continent, which was stressing in the past on human and moral principles, the author believes that it adopts today public policies which are opposite to those principles, at a time when the Arab and Islamic world indulges in the heart of a deep crisis that is slowly worsening.

But if we analyze the international arena through the ages, we will conclude that it always saw contradictions, perhaps, some time, more than what we see today. And therefore we can disagree with Mr. Maalouf over his thesis, as civilizations remain and will never be drowned as long as economic resources, political systems, traditions and morals, passion about science and arts are there. Those are what makes a civilization.

In addition, these civilizations continue as containers of perse cultures and different origins that have come to interact and form the characteristics of a civilization that express the humanity and reflect the general principles that are common among all.

All states, inpiduals, peoples, and groups must root in the common human values to root out fallacies and ignorance, where out of good intentions and international initiatives, pillars for justice be deep rooted to sky high, to feed intellectuals in their fight against terrorism, arrogance, brutality and misleading directions.