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030 - In the name of God: peace or war?

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Realta’ Nuova No. 5 September/October-November/December 2004

We all know that in the word Islam there is the root of the word peace and we remember how Jesus presented to his people the first mission entrusted to them: “Whichever house you enter, say first of all: peace in this house”. The word peace in the Koran is one of the ninety-nine most beautiful names of God.

“Al salam aleikom”: peace be with you. “wa aleikum el salam wa rahmat ilah wa barakat”: and with you be peace, God’s mercy and His blessing, a term used several times in the day by any Arab. A wish for peace that is part of the daily rhythm of life in the Arab world. An obligatory wish in relations between Muslims, but if it comes from and with a Christian to a Muslim, the whole phrase of peace is often not reciprocated, from Muslim to Christian.

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031 - LOYALTY OF IMAMS AND ISLAMIC CENTERS

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Tempi – 12-2005

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About terrorism and the loyalty of Muslim immigrants to the Italian State. Most of the media avoid the core of the problem: loyalty of Italian Muslims or Muslim residents and their Muslim household to the Italian nation and its laws. One fringe of Muslims in the world is motivated by the objective of re-establishing the caliphate and the purity of original Islam. In Europe 20 or30 years ago, the European citizen did not know the prin- ciples of Islam, or if so, only vaguely. In the last thirty years Islam has been im- planted in Europe with both good and bad, helped by certain particular political forces of ours.

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034 - THE CHURCHES OF THE EAST 2009

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Calendar 2009 Enec – 12-2009

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The current time is not the first in history during which the Arab world occupies the front pages of newspapers. The Gulf War has only accentuated a tension that has now culminated in an eruption. What is less well known is the fact that in this large group, which has about one hundred and fifty million inhabitants and includes the whole of the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa, they live side by side with their Muslim fellow citizens from 12 to 15 million Christians who have played an important role over the years, despite their small numbers. It was after the Islamic Arab conquest that Christians of all denominations began to translate, from Greek and Syriac to Arabic, the literary and scientific works of their predecessors. It was they who introduced the invaders from the desert to the Eastern disciplines (philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, medicine and geography) thus provoking a renaissance that lasted until the Middle Ages, when the Western world was still submerged in darkness. In this regard, it is good to remember that Charlemagne gazed at the gifts sent to him by Haroun el Rashid.

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035 - Christians and Muslims: Comparison of cultures in theory and practice

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Meeting of civilization-Bari – 1/05 – 2006

In five years the number of immigrants in Italy has risen from one to three million, a third of whom are Muslims: to what extent is immigration sustainable? There are difficulties for Arab Muslims to integrate into the West. In order to understand the existing problems, it is necessary to take a step back on the contrasts existing in the realities between the Middle Eastern Arab world, the political situation, and the reasons for hostility, the desire of Islam for revenge and conquest.

The Arab World: contrasts between south and north of the Mediterranean (-1/3)

  • Inequalities between North and South of the Mediterranean: there are driving forces of emigration, escape from the villages
  • Starting from Egypt one can express and condense the great problems of the Arab world: Population growth -> economic backwardness -> cultural underdevelopment (schools, teaching system- little reflection and critical sense) -> political underdevelopment -> fundamentalism…
  • Absence of stable social fabric in cities leads to emigrations.

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