"To support the integration of Muslims in Europe it is necessary to invest on people" not "on the politics of redevelopment of urban outskirts. We must create, form and support an intellectual elite of European Muslims." This is, according to the joint statement, the opinion of the imam Yahya Sergio Yahe Pallavicini, who spoke at the meeting. "Europe as a model of a peaceful cohabitation in the world," we can read in the statement "has been the core of Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard’s speech (vice-president of the Ccee). "Christians and Muslims have the feeling that Europe is a "lab" to test new relations between them," said the CCEE and the KEK. A lab for Muslims that see in it a new background for the expression of the faith in a secular society". A lab for Christians that "test their ecumenical diversities in their dialogue with Islam." It is essential for "Christians and Muslims to work together". In the meanwhile, the statement reads, "we are looking forward to the Muslim-Catholic Forum, which is to be held on 4th and 5th November, and to the "following meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and a delegation of 138 Muslim intellectual and religious leaders who signed the open letter "A Common Word." ” ” ” ” ” “
