MADRID — Amid world recognition of the alarming phenomena, Spain will play host on Tuesday, October 9, for an international conference on combating growing Islamophobia in Western societies.“There is a lack of data regarding the phenomena,” Gema Martin Munoz, the director of Arab House, a public body working to strengthen ties between Spain and the Arab world, told Agence France Presse (AFP) Sunday, October 7.
“It is important to collect data to avoid overestimating or minimizing Islamophobia.”
The conference, held under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), would tackle discrimination against Muslims, its consequences and the role of the media in fueling Islamophobic sentiments.
Attendants, including high-ranking delegations from the OSCE’s 56 member states and NGOs, would also probe the role of education in countering this alarming phenomenon.
Also attending will be Arab league General Secretary Amr Mousa.
The two-day conference would be chaired by Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office.
The OSCE, a forum dialogue which promotes human rights, democracy and conflict prevention, has in several declarations expressed concern about and condemned discrimination against Muslims.
In a report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council on September 14, UN Special Rapporteur on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Forms of Intolerance Doudou Diene warned that Islamophobia has been on the rise since the 9/11 attacks.
A recent report by the European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia said that Muslim minorities in Europe face deep-seated discrimination in jobs, education and housing in addition to myriad barriers that give rise to feelings of hopelessness and exclusion.
Coexistence
Cordoba, a symbol of centuries of coexistence between Christians, Jews and Muslims, was chosen as the conference host.
The city’s 8th century mosque is a reminder of an Islamic civilization which flourished on the Iberian Peninsula between the 8th and the 15th centuries, when Spain was known as “al-Andalus”.
The city hosted an OSCE conference on anti-Semitism in 2005.
“It is all the more significant in that in recent years there has occurred a conspicuous demographic change in many countries, and nowadays Islam is professed by millions within the European Union,” said Moratinos.
“In Spain alone, hundreds of thousands of Muslims live peacefully with us, as do we with them.”
The conference is part of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s efforts to resolve cultural and religious differences, especially between the Western and Muslim world.
After the 2004 Madrid train bombing, Zapatero and Turkish counterpart Erdogan lunched an initiative to form the “Alliance of Civilianizations” to promote tolerance and understanding between followers of different faiths.
The alliance was formed by the UN in 2005 and is currently chaired by former Portuguese president Jorge Sampaio.
October 8, 2007 at 3:46 am |
“After the 2004 Madrid train bombing,” people became more aware of the truth.
October 17, 2007 at 9:30 pm |
Is this gonna Kill You? No i Dont Think so !
October 18, 2007 at 4:20 am |
I wonder if it will open up for the Christianophobia conference. That would be some double bill.
February 9, 2008 at 1:07 pm |
In the impossibility to comment on the site, because something is blocking it:(http://ombl.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/a-roupa-e-a-espada-de-maome/),
I comment it here in this forum so far free!
Having the cloths and the camel slash (seen in the picture; not the pen since he was illiterate) eventually of mohammad only means he existed (and misfortunately the World knows it, by the sufferings and mental blindness impinged), but does not mean he did good actions that would set him as a good human example to follow (that he was not) as a peacemaker.
Eventually having his sword only means that he was a criminal and/or a commander and ruler and/or a tribal fighter and killer (therefore not a man of GOD, and definitely not HIS messenger) and/or a political and economic leader of his time and region. But it does not prove, it cannot prove, it will NEVER prove, that he was a prophet or messenger of GOD (although it might prove he was an instrument of the devil, that is of the GOD opposite).
But as an outcome of this conference, where a few wrong things have been said and continue to be cited, here go some thoughts and truths (JUST READ THE WORLD REFENCES AND REASON).
WAKE UP islam (stop destroying yourselves and the God created Mankind and world) AND RAISE UP IN UNISSON AGAINST ISLAMO-FASCISM! Stop your involution with the devil, and BE CHRISTIAN!
The arab leader of the 7th century (D.C.) never was and never will be a prophet in the Religious sense of the word.
Mafoma or mohammad was a criminal in the complete sense of the word:
(1) he killed by his sword and personally cut the throat to several hundreds (cumulatively, thousands!) of what he considered enemies (just because they were Jews or Christians and did not believe in him, a criminal!)
(2) he was a hatemonger because hated is enemies and therefore incited his stupid followers to kill and persecute in his false name (it is written in the false quran, reason for which it does not emanate from God; may be from the devil or any pig you want)
(3) he was not a peacemaker (as Jesus Christ was; as well as MK Gandhi, Dr Livingstone, Pope John Paul II, Mother Theresa of Calcutta, ML King and even Nelson Mandela, etc) and in his name and because of this islamo-fascist cult, millions of Christians and Jews were killed murdered or enslaved from the 8th to the 12th centuries, from Syria and Iran to Palestine, to northern Egypt, and northern Africa until Morocco; and the thousands of churches and synagogues these deceivers and un-holly people destroyed because of their mental blindness racism and stubbornness; and the millions of jews and Christian believers early witnesses and followers of early-Christianity, that where eliminated by this evil-cult not GOD-loving (but solely racism and fanaticism loving).
(4) he was a womanger, since he had 10 official wives, 3 concubines and several others non-nominated female slaves
(5) with the third wife (Aisha) he even was a paedophile by any Human Standards (but not under animal standards) since he consumed the physical act even before her to become a teenager
(6) he was a male chauvinistic in view of his tremendous and continuous disrespect for women
(7) he was a liar since he never was a prophet from God, because God does not select for His messenger this type of erratic criminal behaviour (may be he was on service of the devil, but never was on God Holy service)
(9) he was a falsifier and deceiver, since he copied plagiated and forged several parts of the HOLY BIBLE and presented Its Holy contents and ideas in a distorted way, as prepared hoaxes and false ideas only full of biased arab origins (or ordered others to do so, since he was illiterate). The false book koran or quran (that does not have nothing of holy that was not said before) contains distortions of the HOLY BIBLE so it is a falsification forgery and partial adaptation – so much distorted and adjusted to arab local interests and to the reality of the false prophet life and his real sinful existence.
(10) he never was an never will be a prophet, because he did not prophesize anything
(11) under Law and Justice, mohammad or mafoma will always be a criminal, a murderer and a leader full of prejudice that incited several crimes to Mankind created in God’s Image. If he was alive he had to be judged by these known crimes against Humanity (and many others not here listed), listed and set as example in the false religious book coran or quran, and be in jail several years for them (or have his hands cut, his head cut, stoned to death, etc by his own standards in his false religious book), and by having led his arab followers in a wrong, pharisaic, confused, out-of-focus, lying and misleading way. Such criminal must be in hell for the sufferings this psychopath impinged on his akin, on others at his time and throughout the world thereafter. Definitely not a man of God, may be only an instrument of the devil in disturbing then and now the Mankind peaceful co-existence otherwise.
(12) besides all these crimes and sinful attitudes he, and the one’s who wrote and adapted the ‘koran’ for him (150 years after his death ), still exerted the final arrogance of claiming for mohammad or mafoma to be the last prophet! That is absolutely ridiculous, to say the least, since with such un-holly arrogance he his trying to silence God and All of His Holy Messengers (of whose list he will never belong).
(13) because of being one of the most successful criminals and deceivers of Mankind (may be with devil’s help!), mafoma or mohammad was then an economic political and tribal leader, but he also revelled to have a psychopath a racist and a schizophrenic character common to mentally-blind illiterate people.
What is regretful is that some pious, God’s fear and God’s devoting character of many non-Christian arabs and middle east citizens, is not devoted to Jesus Christ. Under Law and Justice there is nothing to judge Jesus Christ for: He was a Lover of All Mankind, believers and gentiles, jews and non-jews, God-abiding people and people labelled by public as sinners ! Jesus Christ was is and will always be The Holy Being, a Holy Soul!.
Jesus Christ is the true God, the one and Only God of Jews (from whom Arabs also supposedly descend, from Abraham, as half-brothers) and Christians, the Almighty Reason and Perfect karma of Buddhists and Hinduism, the God of gods of many civilizations not directly visited or witnessing His Human facet (Jesus Christ Himself). In modern scientific terms, Jesus Christ can be thought as the three-dimensional intersection of God’s multi-dimensional space with our three-dimensional human physical space on Earth and the Universe; so Jesus Christ is also the Creator or Cause of the Universe, and the leitmotiv of Humanity existence on His Image.
WAKE UP islam (stop destroying yourselves and the God created Mankind and world) AND RAISE UP IN UNISSON AGAINST ISLAMO-FASCISM! Stop your involution with the devil, and BE CHRISTIAN!
February 13, 2008 at 7:29 pm |
Only an idiot would take white scavengers seriously. No whites = no terrorism
March 30, 2008 at 5:16 pm |
the evil white trash is for sure a racist, since he knows collors.
I am an Universalist, trying to follow the Universal Truth and getting rid of sinful lies of all of those who impinge by force, by cutting of throats, by hatemongers, by womangers, etc etc ad nauseum, their false prophet — but surely sinful criminal tribal leader — to all the rest of the World that would leave in Peace and Holy Brotherhood otherwise.
G-at-mekka