FCNL Epistle On Engaging Muslims |
| This epistle was approved by the FCNL General Committee at Annual Meeting in November, 2009. Greetings to Friends: As Quakers we are called to “answer that of God in everyone.” Our work begins with ourselves and our own country. This work must include our embrace of the “other,” in order to replace “tolerance” with understanding, respect, and sustained collaboration on We have inherited a large house, a great “world house” in which we have to live together—black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Moslem and Hindu—a family unduly separated in ideas, culture and interest, who, because we can never again live apart, must learn somehow to live with each other in peace.” Martin Luther King, Jr., 1964 We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning, keeping in mind what has been written….Koran…’we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another’….Talmud…’the Torah is for the purpose of promoting peace’…..Bible…’Blessed are the peacemakers’… President Barack Obama, Cairo, June 3, 2009. |
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