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"AN HISTORIC GLOBAL INTERFAITH CONFERENCE HELD IN MADRID"
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Madrid - an historic, 'first step' three-day meeting through Friday was hosted by the Saudis in Madrid, Spain.
More than 500 years after Spain's golden age of tolerance among Jews, Christians, and Muslims came to a definitive end, some leaders of those faiths – as well as of Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism – have met at a royal palace on Madrid's outskirts in a bid to boost inter religious understanding.
Abdullah al-Turki organized the conference on behalf of the Muslim World League (MWL), where he is secretary general. The MWL was created by the Saudi royal family in 1962 to "promote Islamic unity" and spread Wahhabi doctrine. Wahhabism is an austere form of Islam that seeks to realize the faith as it was practiced by Muhammad and his Companions, barren of the innovations and traditions that arose in the centuries since.
Organizers of the gathering expected to attract dozens of American-based Muslims, including Sayyed Syeed and Ingrid Mattson from the Islamic Society of North America, Ibrahim Hooper, Nihad Awad from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, as well as six U.S. rabbis, including Marc Schneier of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding and Steven Jacobs of Los Angeles, John Esposito, director of Georgetown University's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding.
In his opening remarks Wednesday at the three-day conference, host Saudi King Abdullah reminded his audience – nearly 300 religious, political, and cultural leaders from 50 different countries – of their shared purpose.
"If we want this historic encounter to succeed, we must look to the things that unite us: our profound faith in God, the noble principles and elevated ethics that represent the foundation of religions," he said.
He linked societal woes like terrorism, racism, crime, drug abuse, and the breakdown of the family to losing touch with religion: "All this is the consequence of the spiritual void that people suffer once they distance themselves from God."
Saudi King Abdullah has made reaching out to other faiths a hallmark of his rule since taking over the oil-rich kingdom following the death of his half brother in 2005. He met with Pope Benedict XVI late last year, the first meeting ever between a pope and a reigning Saudi king.
And in June, Abdullah held a religious conference in Mecca in which participants pledged improved relations between Islam's two main branches — Sunni and Shia. At that meeting Abdullah also rejected extremism, saying that Muslims must present Islam's "good message" to the world.
Detractors counter that the Saudis are the last people who should be hosting a meeting on religious tolerance. Monsignor Nabil Haddad, head of the Melkite Catholic community in Jordan and a participant at the conference, told The Associated Press that "any event that allows the world's main faiths to sit down together is worthwhile."
"The conference provides a rare opportunity for strengthening mutual respect between the followers of the three main religions," he said.
The audience in Madrid included World Jewish Congress Secretary General Michael Schneider and Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the Vatican's point man on dialogue with Muslims.
The conference had shown that "it is possible to respect our respective faiths" and that "dialogue is the best way to contribute to harmony and peace," Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran said at the closing session.
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