I don’t know about this. Looks good on paper, but I doubt it’ll happen. Too many variables. Too many groups that love to hate.

Giving Peace a Chance

In an unprecedented letter, Muslim leaders across the globe invite the world’s Christians to the table.

Oct. 11, 2007 - Getting religious leaders to agree on anything is notoriously difficult. So this morning’s announcement-that 138 of the world’s most powerful Muslim clerics, scholars and intellectuals from all branches of Islam (Sunni and Shia, Salafi and Sufi, liberal and conservative) had come together to write a letter to the world’s Christian leaders-is being hailed as something of a miracle.

In a display of unprecedented unity, the letter-which calls for peace between the world’s Christians and Muslims-is signed by no fewer than 19 current and former grand ayatollahs and grand muftis from countries as diverse as Egypt, Turkey, Russia, Syria, Jordan, Palestine and Iraq. It is addressed to Christianity’s most powerful leaders, including the pope, the archbishop of Canterbury and the heads of the Lutheran, Methodist and Baptist churches, and, in 15 pages laced with Qur-anic and Biblical scriptures, argues that the most fundamental tenets of Islam and Christianity are identical: love of one (and the same) God, and love of one’s neighbor.

Emily Flynn Vencat, Newsweek

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