RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: SALAMEH (JORDAN), "DIALOGUE DOESN NOT THREATEN RELIGION"

"Dialogue cannot threaten the presence of a religion, because an in-depth review of different opinions opens one’s mind, dissolves ambiguity and brings the parties closer to one another". Unfortunately, from what one can see, "dialogue is not built around a complete, real acquaintance, and some try it out by analysing parts or even words of a verse, disjointed from the text". Upsides and downsides of Islam-Christian dialogue in the words of Hanna Salameh, member of the Union of Jordanian authors, of the Jordanian League for Human Rights and the forum for transparency in Jordan. Speaking at the scientific Committee of the International Study and Research Centre Oasis which is taking place in Amman, Jordan (until 24th), Salameh criticised "offences against religious beliefs, such as comments and caricatures which hurt the devotees of the monotheistic religions", and asked for "an international religious media movement to explain that religions are not afraid of challenges and do not respond to the agitators who instigate peoples, endangering the stability of the countries". "Violence, instead of wisdom and the enforcement of the law – remarked the Jordanian intellectual –, does not guarantee security and peace". (continued)” ” ” “