Promoting Peaceful Coexistence and Common Citizenship

[ 104 ] — INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE FOR PEACE — ay the praise and peace of God be upon you all and upon our messenger, Muhammad, and upon all the messengers and prophets. Blessed are those who have established the principles of dialogue, regardless of the differences between humankind. In an article I authored that was published today in the Asharq Al Awsat newspaper, I posed some questions to individuals whom we have met or worked with on various occasions throughout the world. My prevailing observa- tion was: “With all gratitude and respect for the efforts of KAICIID and other centres of dialogue, and with all due respect to your esteemed objectives for hosting conferences and workshops on dialogue, as well as all of the seminars on peaceful coexistence that you organize for participants around the world; and with the additional efforts from the media and others; we never see you grow tired. The number of centres of dialogue and conferences on the topic of peaceful coexistence are increasing. On the other hand, the number of religious, ethnic and racial conflicts, whether or not they are linked to religion, is also increasing. These, according to my point of view are very crucial questions to which we need to find an answer because, undoubtedly, the individual who poses those questions Dr. Hamad Al Majed M