1 - Articles, 5 - Political Islam, centers of worship, prescriptions

053 - PEACE IS POSSIBLE

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ROTARY – 1/12 – 2014

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Dr. GIUSEPPE SAMIR EID

RC Milan South-East

It is indispensable to ask the Arab world to work on education, on the media, on textbooks in schools and even to invite to this line of education and peace, the imams and preachers who have in their hands the formidable instrument of sermons in mosques, where it would be appropriate to proclaim also the verses of the Koran that underline God’s will towards religious plurality and the commitment to compete for good in God’s mercy.

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The published articles intend to provide the tools for a social inclusion of the migratory flow, shed light on human rights and the condition of life of Christians in the Islamic world from which the author come from. Knowledge of the other, of cultural and religious differences are primary ingredients to create peace in the hearts of men everywhere, a prerequisite for a peaceful coexistence and convinced citizenship in the territory.

Giuseppe Samir Eid

 

 

 

 

 

1 - Articles, 4 - Acceptance and integration, 5 - Political Islam, centers of worship, prescriptions

055 - CURRENT AFFAIRS AND IMMIGRATION

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ROTARY – pages 58 – 10/2015

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The challenge of taking the opportunity for mutual enrichment.

In Italy, as in the rest of the Western world, there is a strong immigration from countries with a large Muslim majority, especially from Africa and the Middle East. There are several causes that push people to leave their country: wars, expulsion, political instability, demographic and economic imbalance, flight from unemployment towards economic survival and others. This phenomenon, in the face of which our unpreparedness and disorientation manifests itself, certainly causes discomfort at various levels. But, if managed in the most appropriate way, uniting all the voluntary forces, it also offers the opportunity for a confrontation between different religions and cultures that can lead to mutual enrichment. Knowing the other, his historical, sociological, cultural, religious reality is one of the fundamental aspects for the realization of a peaceful coexistence and for a good management of the phenomenon of immigration. However, it must also be considered that these refugees live in a condition of inferiority both on the socio-economic and on the communication level. In fact, they are still people who find themselves living in a country other than their own, where a language that is unknown to them is spoken. For this reason they tend to close themselves off in their own reality, creating small ghettos distinguished by origin, language, culture, tribe, religion or religious brotherhood.

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056 - CHRISTIANS, LIVING UNDER SHARIA LAW

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Radio Maria 2015 – 1/04 – 2015

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In order to live together it is necessary to talk to each other and in order to talk to each other we need to get to know each other: doing so we take distance from fundamentalism.

1 – Overview of the Arab world

Getting to know each other:

  • Demography, Poverty, Emigration
  • School system, mnemonic studies, illiteracy, critical thinking?
  • Prejudices towards local Christians Muslims bring with them from their young age, which are fuelled by the social context
  • Laws that privilege Muslim citizens

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057 - ENDING HATE SPEECH

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Matchman – 24/11/2015

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A petition to say no hate in teaching and school textbooks

Giuseppe Samir Eid wrote to Matchman News reporting a petition, launched through CitizenGO.org, addressed to Ahmed Muhammad Ahmed el-Tayeb.

By Luca Chiodini – 24/11/2015

Giuseppe Samir Eid wrote to Matchman News pointing out his latest initiative: a petition, launched through CitizenGO.org, addressed to Ahmed Muhammad Ahmed el-Tayeb – current Grand Imam of the University of Al-Azhar, one of the greatest landmarks of the Arab and Islamic world.

It calls for the elimination of all hate texts from the teachings (from sermons, television, media, etc.), but especially from school texts and to promote the “teachings of the values of civil and religious freedom without discrimination between people and peoples”.

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