Muslim and Christian representative organizations are both calling for a regular pluralist forum, to work together on the difficult questions plaguing our times. Can we please give it to them!
And then hold a megaphone to what they are coming up with!
The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) is an organisation run and funded solely by American Muslims, and which believes that Muslims in America can have a positive and reformist voice in national and international discourse. In the interest of promoting greater dialogue and better understanding, MPAC believes that all Americans – from different political, religious and racial backgrounds – urgently require an all-inclusive national platform from which they can listen to and speak with each other.
Readers of my blog will know that for some time now, the World Evangelical Alliance has been calling for this same pluralist round-table. And that such a pluralist think-tank can contribute real-world wisdom to public policy – much more than a secular paradigm can.
Can anyone tell me, why don’t we hear from these forums – because they don’t yet exist, or because they don’t get a megaphone?
“Al-Qaeda is no more representative of Islam than the Ku Klux Klan is of Christianity.” – Rick Warren
You know Christians are clearly against KKK, so if Rick is right, then where are the Mulsim voices speaking out against the outrages of Al-Qaeda, and the jihad-spruiking elements of Islam?
Well those voices exist (MPAC).
Therefore, why don’t we hear more from them? (Is it the conscious editorial bias of media magnates, or just that they’re not yet aware?)
And why aren’t such groups from all religions given the pluralist table, and the task of working on public policy, to find consensus where secularist policy is clearly deficient!
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