On May 6, 12:07=A0pm, Ramabriga <Ramabr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Barroso: Islam is part of Europe =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
>
> BRUSSELS , May 5: The President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel
Ba=
rroso, underlined
> here Monday that Islam is part and parcel of Europe and he also
condemned =
the concept of clash
> of civilisations.
>
> "Islam today is part of Europe. It is im****tant to understand this.One
sho=
uld not see Islam as
> outside Europe. We already have an im****tant presence of Islam and
Muslims=
among our citizens,"
> Barroso told a press conference this afternoon after an informal
dialogue =
between EU leaders
> and around twenty high-level representatives of Christianity, Judaism
and =
Islam in Europe.
>
> "We can be a European citizen being a Christian, being Jewish or Muslim
or=
having no religion,"
> he noted.
>
> On his part, the Grand Mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Dr.Mustafa Ceric,
said=
Islam is indeed part
> of Europe but unfortunately Turkey is not yet part of Europe.
>
> "Following this logic Europe has to prove that Islam is part of Europe
by =
not delaying the
> acceptance of Turkey to the EU," Ceric told the joint press conference.
>
> Many people in Turkey and the Muslim world believe that Turkey will not
be=
accepted as an EU
> member because it is a Muslim country.
>
> Mondays meeting was co-chaired by European Commission President Barroso,
S=
lovenian Prime
> Minister and current President of the European Council, Janez Jansa, and
t=
he President of the
> European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pottering.
>
> This year's meeting focused on two major challenges facing the European
Un=
ion: Climate Change
> and Reconciliation.
>
> This was the fourth such annual meeting with religious leaders and the
sec=
ond involving the
> Presidents of the three EU institutions. The initiative was launched by
Pr=
esident Barroso in 2005.
>
> Barroso said that the inter-faith dialogue proved that "preachers of
clash=
of civilisations are
> wrong".
>
> Janez Jansa told re****ters that "the environment is not only natural but
a=
lso a sacred place.
> Community and loalty between man, nature and the Creator is a basic
princi=
ple of Judaism,
> Christianity and Islam alike".
>
> Slovenia, he said, would like to create an Euro-Mediterranean university
w=
hich will be a
> meeting place for young people coming from the Christian, Muslim and
Jewis=
h world.
>
> A charter will be signed on 9 June in Slovenia, which holds the current
EU=
Presidency, on
> creating this new university.
>
> EP President Pottering said "intercultural dialogue is an im****tant
contri=
bution to the
> European Union's relations with its neighbouring countries, in
particular =
in the Mediterranean
> region".
>
> He noted that since the EU has declared 2008 as the European Year of
Inter=
cultural Dialogue,
> the high-level meeting is a welcome op****tunity to focus o on the topic
of=
"Reconciliation
> through intercultural and inter-faith dialogue".(KUNA)
>
>
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Another ankle grabber. I euronate on him but will not paeonn him..
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