Thursday, 1st October 2009
King Abdullah's imaginative inter-faith initiative
11:24pm
In Arab News, we learn that Bava Jain, secretary-general of the World Council of Religious Leaders, has described as
historic and bold
the two-day international inter-faith conference which opened today in Geneva. The conference is the initiative of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia who, says Bava Jain, deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for an initiative which potentially
would have tremendous impact on world peace and stability if effective measures were taken to implement it.
The report tells us:
...Delegates from 35 countries are taking part in the conference, which opens Wednesday. They include William Baker, president of Christians and Muslims for Peace in the US; David Rosen, director of inter-religious affairs at the American Jewish Committee; Pramjeet Singh Sarna, president of Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Rakab Ganj Sahib; Kuniaki Kuni, president of the Association
Wednesday, 30th September 2009
Beef-eating surrender monkeys?
7:21pm
Matthias Kuentzel has written an important piece for the Wall Street Journal explaining just why the world's ‘dialogue’ with Iran over its nuclear programme -- which is continuing with talks between five UN Security Council members plus Germany -- is such a lethal farce. First the Europeans and now the Obama administration have said they want Iran to comply with its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to which it is a signatory. But as Kuentzel observes, Iran is bound by its own constitution to violate that treaty, since ever since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 Iran has been constitutionally bound to abolish the very world order that the NNPT is designed to stabilise. He writes:
...An Islamist state like Iran can by definition not be considered a bona fide signatory to the NPT. The mullahs, although opposed
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