2 - Reflections, Acceptance and integration, Islamic cult centers and Mosques, Articles

R046 - Mosques, minarets, centres for religious worship

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Corriere – 10/09 – 2016

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ISLAM PAPER VALUES

Dear Dr. Goffredo Buccini:

I fully agree with the article in today’s Corriere on Friday, February 19, 2016. Allow me to add some comments that you, if you agree, could elaborate in the correct way.

1- It is right to allow the construction of unique prayer rooms for all Islamic currents. Not an exclusive for a specific current.

2 – Islam and Muslims are not the same thing: the practice in Morocco is not similar to that of Lebanon (Syria! ) nor to that of the Gulf countries, Pakistan and Asian countries. To demand a single representation for all Muslims seems to me difficult and even counterproductive. Promoting those who accept our constitutional rules and checking for digressions.

3 – The only representation for all means to allow the strongest current, the Muslim Brotherhood, to condition women and men who do not adhere to suffer discrimination that they would have liked to avoid coming to Italy.

4 – The financing of the worship center should exclude that coming from countries that have rejected the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The person who finances has the power over the management and the line of conduct. If the land is granted free of charge by a municipality, it would be appropriate for one of its representatives to sit on the management board.

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2 - Reflections, Islamic cult centers and Mosques, Political Islam

R047 - Mosque in Milan

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FAX – 20/08 – 2009

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Date: 20 August ’09

To: Dr. Riccardo

FROM: G. Eid

OBJECT:  National and international business economist, attentive to the situation of Muslims in the West and that of Christians in the Arab world, author of various publications. We met in the course of a report of mine on the coexistence of Muslims in Italy, at the Circolo dei Pugliesi in PiazzaDuomo.

In my opinion, the constitution of prayer rooms in Milan should be made according to the needs of individual districts and should not be evaluated on the basis of the number of Muslims living in Milan; the arbitrary evaluation of a percentage that prays is a purely personal fact, lends itself to exploitation. In fact, unlike the church or the parish, Muslims need places where they can gather to pray under the guidance of an imam responsible for the sermon. Even though this is not obligatory because in Islam the relationship that exists between the faithful and our common Creator, God, is direct without the filter of a hierarchy.

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2 - Reflections, Islamic cult centers and Mosques

R050 - Islamic Centres

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What message do the Centres propose in the face of specific problems that separate us, such as:  Religious freedom, mixed marriage, willingness to observe the laws of Italy and the willingness to live together?

Mosques and centres continue to teach a traditionalist Islam that conceives the Western (i.e. Christian) way of life as contrary to Islam and therefore proposes a West to be Islamised. The consequences on the behaviour of millions of people are foreseeable. It is enough to look at cassettes, books, sermons and various materials that circulated in the Centres or their libraries (at least until a year ago). We have even protected people sought in their countries for having undermined the stability of their states.

The reference to Islamic identity, however, is not always compatible with the legal and socio-cultural structure of European countries. From this arise potential situations of conflict that require to be faced with the necessary awareness to maintain an institutional and social order that is, of course, open to cultural pluralism, but within the framework of a system of values, shared and legally defined, which all social components, including immigrants is desirable to adhere to.

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.