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058 - VALUES AND FREEDOM OF THOUGHT

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ROTARY – 12/2014

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Looking beyond the rules of religions and cultures.

Knowledge is crucial for the understanding of the social and religious dynamics of our time. Thanks to freedom of thought and our democracy, our children have grown up open to know the meaning of the customs and traditions, handed down through the centuries, by the elders; they have acquired a rich identity that derives from the knowledge of their history without remaining caged in it. Our Western media often refer to the universal values that draw their source from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of December 10, 1948 drafted by the UN; a declaration unfortunately not recognized by 57 countries that are part of the OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation), Islamic states that instead apply the Sharia law that draws its source from the Koran and applies its principles.

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062 - WELCOMING CAUTIOUSLY

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11/2016

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The increased availability of means of transport and communications is facilitating the emigration to Europe of young Arabs of Islamic faith from countries where discriminatory laws prevail against citizens of different faiths, generating mental prejudices in them. Reception in the economic fabric of our country should be completed by including cultural and religious aspects, through a campaign of mutual understanding, both in Europe and in Africa. In order to create an inclusive welcome it would be indispensable to ask the Arab world to work on education, the media, textbooks in schools and even to invite to this education path and peace, 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.

Giuseppe Samir Eid

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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.

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065 - THE QURAN: two readings

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THE QURAN – 1/05 – 2016

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The Koran: Some topics are not strictly treated according to the prescriptions

There are two ways to read the Koran:

  1. Read and apply the text to the letter without correlating it to the whole text: “cut off the thief’s hand” without considering the Koran’s insistence on Forgiveness.
  2. The second way is to take the Koran as a whole. The Believer does not seek the truth in the single sentence but in the general context, they do not remain disturbed by the isolated contradictions.

Despite the existence of verses that contradict each other, modernist Muslims assert that the Koran should be read as a single Chapter and that the truth is to be sought in the evolution of the text and not in the reading of a verse taken in isolation. The sacred texts are a source of meditations and reflections:

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