Monday, March 5, 2012

Common ground crucial for Christians and Muslims

If Muslims and Christians are to live together peacefully, they need to search for words in common, says a leading Muslim activist here.

If they "know the ideas and thoughts of each other and eradicate the ignorance of each other, I think they will have eradicated the main threat of war and conflict," says Sadr Eddine Al-Sadr.

Al-Sadr directs the Imam Al-Sadr Centre for Research and Studies, named for his father, a Muslim scholar and Imam (religious leader). The father blazed the way for communication between religions, as well as expanding schools and hospitals in deprived regions of Lebanon. Politically active as well, he mysteriously disappeared in Libya in 1978. The …

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