What Draws People of Faith to Right Wing Organisations & What Effects Does the EDL Have on Interfaith Relations? Key findings of the report include: EDL attempts to recruit among faith communities Christian leaders should publicly stand up to EDL UK government should examine group’s international funding Jewish Defence League should be banned Christian organisations […]
Continue Reading“We deplore the comments made by the Pakistani Railways Minister, Ghulam Ahmed Bilour, who has put a $100,000 bounty on the head of the Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the individual who put together the low-budget trailer for the ‘Innocence of Muslims’ film. Fueling the flames of anger and counter-reaction, the statement has once again put Pakistan […]
Continue ReadingFaith Matters developed the Role of Righteous Muslims Booklet in order to document the stories of Muslims, driven by their faith and the code of honour (BESA), to protect the lives of persecuted Jews in the Holocaust. The code of honour or BESA was fundamental to Albania and many Albanian Muslims protected fellow Jewish Albanians […]
Continue ReadingDeclaration of European Muslim and Jewish Leaders at Paris, September 5th, 2012, ‘A Zero Tolerance Approach for Religious Bigotry.’ This is the text of the Declaration which was launched in Paris in September 2012: We, Muslim and Jewish leaders of Europe, affirm together that in order to ensure the security and well being of millions […]
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