Ethnoland News – pag. 40 – 7-20

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Discovering the points of possible contact, as well as the conditions for better mutual acceptance: For a concrete commitment.

Giuseppe Eid

The presence of Islam is now visible in Europe: it is the consequence of the migratory flows, which affect the main Western countries, including Italy. It is, therefore, opportune to approach the Muslim Arab culture to overcome stereotypes and avoid misunderstandings. Only from an adequate and reciprocal knowledge can the premises for a peaceful and fruitful coexistence emerge.

Few people know that in the Eastern Mediterranean, together with one hundred million Muslim Arabs, live about twelve million Christian Arabs, who have always played an important role in the life of their countries over the centuries, and that in the future they could play a decisive role as a “bridge” between the two civilizations, in order to contain the increasingly pressing – and sometimes worrying – contrasts between the two shores of the Mediterranean.

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Rotarian Values – 8/11 – 2008

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In recent decades values understood as the dignity of the human being have undergone a clear evolution from a situation of rigid imposition to a situation of freer choice through a work of inculturation of society.

In fact, in the patriarchal society from which I come, values were prescribed without any possibility of objection. After the World War, with the Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 by the UN enunciating the evolution of the values of our world, the attention shifted towards respect for the rights of the human being as such. The enormous progress of science has also had the effect of making us question the position of the human being who should be given precedence in the choices of society because it has been realised that technology in the wrong hands could lead to a threat to man.

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