Dubai hosts World Interfaith Day on Feb. 3

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The meet takes place during the first week of February every year. The World Interfaith Harmony Week (February 1-7, 2016) provides a platform for all interfaith groups and other groups of goodwill to gather and express their solidarity and work together to promote harmony and goodwill in the world.

This year, the conference will focus on how peace at home builds peace in the world. It will bring together a combination of international leaders from faith groups, universities, businesses, NGOs and public institutions to discuss the contribution of various faith traditions in building peaceful homes and strong families which are essential components for building peace in the world. The objective is to facilitate peace and harmony between people of all religious and philosophical traditions while exploring ways to work together to strengthen homes and communities.

The UN General Assembly encourages all states to support the week to the spread the message of interfaith harmony and goodwill in the world’s mosques, churches, synagogues, temples, and other places of worship, on a voluntary basis and according to their own religious traditions or convictions.

http://www.emirates247.com/news/emir...02-02-1.619602

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Dubai

Where Religions converge harmoniously

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/where-re...e-harmoniously
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It's interesting that the map with color code dots lists "Christian curch" and "Catholic church."

They're not off to a very good start on their sorceries world religion doing that, are they?

Sad. The whole thing very sad, but must be.

Issachar

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Good point Issachar.

When I saw that map I had to post. As you say, it is interesting. The new image of the Arab world they are slowly trying to get out there has moved along. Even the fact it is posted in the Khalee Times says something. The message it is meant to send Arabs?????

I suspect many in the west would be surprised at the number of Christian churches in Dubai. So often we hear things from old reports when there weren't any. That alone says a lot. The new ideology/theology is moving along, even in the Arab world.

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Dubai is become somewhat of a (outside of oil only) world trade center in the middle east. As such, they tend, as a society, to be more tolerant since they have to deal with so many from all over the world. It is a much more "open" society.

Most of the Middle East though is still high risk for Christians. Open Doors lists 9 nations where Christian persecution is Extreme and 8 of them (N.Korea the exception) are muslim nations in the Middle East. The next category, "Very High" numbers 16 and all but 2 or 3 are Middle East muslim nations .. See list/maps

So this "World Interfaith Day" group has a long way to go. I'm not sure how all this will work out in a new world order. Islam must discard the koran in order to join hands with infidels .. all that are not muslim. It will be interesting to see how all this goes ..

Issachar

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True about Dubai, I would guess that is why they were chosen to host.

jmvho?

They don't have to discard the Koran. The secondary sources are the problem. Many of the radical quotes are actually secondary sources. What secondary source translated.

Oddly, it was the secondary sources that caused many of the problems among the Jews when Jesus was physically here. The guesses of the wise men prior to His arrival and during His time here.(Even today) Looking at man's translations of God Word and not God's Word.

That can be actually be said in a lot of places now.

My guess is Islam will do what Christianity is doing, selective reading and continuing the practice of relying on man's interpretations. Mohammed did protect his Jewish neighbors and did say it was their duty to protect Jews and Christians.

But as has been true in all three, reliance on man's interpretation's and dependency on man's interpretations will be the clue. There is already enough foundation for all three to believe in and form Utopia, under the banner of Abrahamic and the Pope's guidance.

PS

Example???
In Christianity we see Kingdom Now. The theory we have to build the "Kingdom", take over and then Jesus will return.

In Islam those verse about killing Jews and Christians are a reference to what they believe about end times, the prophet Mohammed and Jesus return. But Islam has it's own version of Kingdom Now.

[Issachar]

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They don't have to discard the Koran. The secondary sources are the problem. Many of the radical quotes are actually secondary sources. What secondary source translated.

I am not sure what you mean by "secondary sources?" The reason I said discard it is because it is so opposed to what Jesus teaches that if people who call themselves Christian, are going to "get along" with them, then one or the other has to be discarded. By discarded I mean ignored, not put out of existence, though the effect would be the same.

The koran, being written by man really doesn't need what we might normally call "interpretation."

There is already enough foundation for all three to believe in and form Utopia, under the banner of Abrahamic and the Pope's guidance.

I agree that is true, but it is within the realm of false christianity as well as false islam. One cannot follow the koran AND unite with non-muslims .. especially Jews and Christians.

In Islam those verse about killing Jews and Christians are a reference to what they believe about end times, ...

With that, I would have to disagree. If you read sura (chapter) 9, 4, 2 ... 3,5 ..

Mohammed did protect his Jewish neighbors and did say it was their duty to protect Jews and Christians.

I cannot find this yet. Do you have a reference? Islam did not exist until more than 600 years after Jesus was physically on the earth. There were Arabs that worked with some Jews and some even converted from whatever belief they had, to Judaism. But along came mohammed and islam ..

The Prophet Muhammad himself was a member of the Quraysh tribe, which coveted the Jews' bounty, and

when the Muslims took up arms they treated the Jews with much greater severity than the Christians, who, until the end of the purely Arab Caliphate, were not badly treated.6

One of the reasons for "this discrimination" against the Jews is what Guillaurne called "the Quran's scornful words" regarding the Jews7 The Jews' development of land and culture was a prime source of booty in the Arabian desert peninsula. Beginning at the

time of the Prophet Muhammad and Islam8 from the expulsions, depredations, extortion, forced conversions or murder of Jewish Arabians settled in Medina to the mass slaughter of Jews at Khaibar -- the precedent was established among Arab-Muslims to

expropriate that which belonged to the Jews. Relations between the Prophet Muhammad and the Jews were "never ... easy":

They had irritated him by their refusal to recognize him as a prophet, by ridicule and by argument; and of course their economic supremacy ... was a standing irritant.9

It appears that the first "instigation" by the Prophet Muhammad himself against the Jews was an incident in which he had "one or two Jews ... murdered and no blood money was paid to their next of kin."

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Because the Jews preferred to retain their own beliefs,

a tribe of Jews in the neighborhood of Medina, fell under suspicion of treachery and were forced to lay down their arms and evacuate their settlements. Valuable land and much booty fell into the hands of the Muslims. The neighboring tribe of Qurayza, who were soon to suffer annihilation, made no move to help their co-religionists, and their allies, the Aus, were afraid to give them active support. 12

The Prophet Muhammad's pronouncement: "Two religions may not dwell together on the Arabian Peninsula."13 This edict was carried out by Abu Bakr and Omar 1, the Prophet Muhammad's successors; the entire community of Jewish settlements throughout northern Arabia was systematically slaughtered. According to Bernard Lewis, "the extermination of the Jewish tribe of Quraiza was followed by "an attack on the Jewish oasis of Khaibar."14
Messengers of Muhammad were sent to the Jews who had escaped to the safety and comfort of Khaibar, "inviting" Usayr, the Jewish "war chief," to visit Medina for mediations.

Usayr set off with thirty companions and a Muslim escort. Suspecting no foul play, the Jews went unarmed. On the way, the Muslims turned upon the defenseless delegation, killing all but one who managed to escape. "War is deception," 15 according to an oft-quoted saying of the Prophet.16

The late Israeli historian and former President, Itzhak Ben-Zvi, judged the "inhuman atrocities" of the Arabian communities as unparalleled since then:

... the complete extermination of the two Arabian-Jewish tribes, the Nadhir and Kainuka' by the mass massacre of their men, women and children, was a tragedy for which no parallel can be found in Jewish history until our own day .... 17

The slaughter of Arabian Jews and the expropriation of their property became Allah's will. According to the Koran,

... some you slew and others you took captive. He (Allah] made you masters of their [the Jews'] land, their houses and their goods, and of yet another land [Khaibar] on which you had never set foot before. Truly, Allah has power over all things.18

source

Anyway .. supper time.

Issachar

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ref. post 6

Example???
In Christianity we see Kingdom Now. The theory we have to build the "Kingdom", take over and then Jesus will return.

Yes. There is much false teaching in these last days. Though "in Christianity" (as you said), it is important for believers to know it (false kingdom teaching) is not a part of Christianity.

Most of the Bible does not need to be interpreted. Some stuff with prophecy, perhaps. But mostly, it is to be read with plain understanding. But even with prophecy, Christians should not be seeking to interpret it, but rather, understand it. As the Holy Spirit opens the eyes or our understanding, we will say ... Ohhhh.

That does not mean, imho, that it is wrong to grapple with and seek to understand .. but until the Holy Spirit reveals, we dare not (again, imho) be dogmatic. That is where much of Christianity gets into trouble.

Issachar

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You've opened up many subjects

I think I should start with..

The reason I mention Christianity is because I suspect it is a place most can relate.
This is just my humble opinion and not from expertise of Islam.

Like Christianity, Islam has been broken into different groups who have taken on different interpretations of verses.

What we see today among the radicals is somewhat comparable to our Kingdom Now movement.
(No I don't have chapter and verses, sorry)

There is a place in the Koran where it states the prophet Mohammed and Jesus have returned. Judgment. At which point Christians and Jews are given the option to convert or die. These are the verses which contain the comments about killing the Jews hiding behind rocks etc..

Kingdom Now it seems believes we must build the Kingdom then Jesus will return. In Islam there are some who believe they must build their Kingdom then Mohammed will return.

So why do I mention this???
It shows, like Christianity, Islam has taken on different interpretations of the same verses.

The openness to different interpretations is opening the door now for Arabs to join the new order. And I would suspect, like christianity, will be the open door Satan is and will use to create his Utopia and have all bow to him.

Did God really say.....

But in their case it is ..Did Mohammed really say....

[Andy]

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Did God really say.....

But in their case it is ..Did Mohammed really say....

Right...and Muslims have every right to question that because Mohammed, unlike God, did speak with tremendous deception/guile.
One of the most fascinating purchases I've done in recent months was the eBook version of, "The Generous Qur'an - An Accureate Modern English Translation of the Qur'an" put out by Straightway Ministries. Not only is it an extremely accurate word-for-word translation to English but the Christian translator puts a plethora of notes and peppers the book with the true gospel. Good stuff!