Spiritual Administration of Muslims proposes creating Council of Jews and MuslimsBy Vestnik KavkazaRussia supports the normalization of the situation in Jerusalem and equal access to all religious sites, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today after talks with the delegation of the Ministerial Contact Group of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Palestine and East Jerusalem. "We have reinstated our common position that it is necessary to solve the Palestinian problem and preserve the territorial integrity of the Palestinian state... After the talks we agreed that it was necessary to normalize the situation in Jerusalem. However, it is necessary to ensure that everyone has access to the holy sites of Christianity, Islam and Judaism without any discrimination based on religious or ethnic grounds," ITAR-TASS quotes Lavrov as saying.Russian Muslim religious and public figure, the first Vice-President and Chief of Staff of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Russian Federation, Damir Mukhetdinov, told Vestnik Kavkaza that Muslims and Jews have always been able to find common ground and this skill is very important, given our complex epoch.According to Mukhetdinov, the Holy Scripture the Quran repeatedly shows the unity of the Abrahamic traditions, and above all raising to our forefather patriarch Abraham, Ibrahim. The tradition of peaceful coexistence has been presented in the era of the Prophet Muhammad in Medina, where the Prophet Muhammad migrated from Mecca. In the city of Medina there was a large Jewish community. From a very early date there were interconnections between Muslims and the indigenous people of Medina in the form of the Jewish community. One of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad, Sofia, also was Jewish, the great Bunin even dedicated a poem to her: Lamps were burning, a foreign language was heard: the great sheikh was reading the Holy Quran - and the immense dome disappeared in the grim darkness...For over a thousand years of history, Muslims and Jews have always found a common language and understanding, Mukhetdinov said. "Both in the reign of the Abbasid caliphs, and in the reign of the Umayyad caliphs, Jews have always found refuge in Muslim countries, whether it was Andalucia, whether it concerned the Ottoman Empire. And the moment of the persecution of the Jews which took place during the Crusades, during the Reconquest of the West, Western Europe, the Church of the Muslim world did not do anything like this in relation to the Jewish population."The first Vice-President and Chief of Staff of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Russian Federation, Damir Mukhetdinov, said that recently, Mufti Ravil Gainutdin, head of Russian Muslims, appealed to the public, to Muslims that had recently cast doubt on the Holocaust, questioning Auschwitz and other very important, not just historically, memorable dates, namely the points that affect both being, and consciousness: "Ravil Hazrat said that in any case we have neither the moral nor another right to question the results and outcomes of the Holocaust, that great tragedy, and in this regard, appealed to Muslims and to the entire public at large. I think that Russian Muslims and our Jewish brothers - and we perceive them as brothers just because the Holy Qoran, much of the scripture is devoted to the Jews and turned to the Jews - talking about how in the world today, in our time, in our state to build a good relationship."Damir Mukhetdinov called his "partners in the Abrahamic religions" with the idea of creating a permanent council "to ensure that our communication is not from case to case, not from conference to conference, and was of a systemic nature and is expressed in the form of research in the form of tables and scientific seminars. It is very important to our Muslim youth and, students who study in madrassas and universities, deeply from the carriers of Jewish tradition could understand and grasp the closeness of our faiths, religions and views on certain issues, because there is a lot of misunderstanding. When you have the opportunity to chat with a rabbi in the Jewish community, and vice versa, if our Jewish brothers will invite representatives of the Imams and Muslim clerics, scholars, that they for their part told this or that position of Islam on a particularly urgent problem, I think it will bring us even closer. And what we call a clash of civilizations, that militancy, calls for the total destruction of everything, there will be no ideological grounds for this confrontation."
By Vestnik Kavkaza
Russia supports the normalization of the situation in Jerusalem and equal access to all religious sites, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today after talks with the delegation of the Ministerial Contact Group of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Palestine and East Jerusalem. "We have reinstated our common position that it is necessary to solve the Palestinian problem and preserve the territorial integrity of the Palestinian state... After the talks we agreed that it was necessary to normalize the situation in Jerusalem. However, it is necessary to ensure that everyone has access to the holy sites of Christianity, Islam and Judaism without any discrimination based on religious or ethnic grounds," ITAR-TASS quotes Lavrov as saying.
Russian Muslim religious and public figure, the first Vice-President and Chief of Staff of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Russian Federation, Damir Mukhetdinov, told Vestnik Kavkaza that Muslims and Jews have always been able to find common ground and this skill is very important, given our complex epoch.
According to Mukhetdinov, the Holy Scripture the Quran repeatedly shows the unity of the Abrahamic traditions, and above all raising to our forefather patriarch Abraham, Ibrahim. The tradition of peaceful coexistence has been presented in the era of the Prophet Muhammad in Medina, where the Prophet Muhammad migrated from Mecca. In the city of Medina there was a large Jewish community. From a very early date there were interconnections between Muslims and the indigenous people of Medina in the form of the Jewish community. One of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad, Sofia, also was Jewish, the great Bunin even dedicated a poem to her: Lamps were burning, a foreign language was heard: the great sheikh was reading the Holy Quran - and the immense dome disappeared in the grim darkness...
For over a thousand years of history, Muslims and Jews have always found a common language and understanding, Mukhetdinov said. "Both in the reign of the Abbasid caliphs, and in the reign of the Umayyad caliphs, Jews have always found refuge in Muslim countries, whether it was Andalucia, whether it concerned the Ottoman Empire. And the moment of the persecution of the Jews which took place during the Crusades, during the Reconquest of the West, Western Europe, the Church of the Muslim world did not do anything like this in relation to the Jewish population."
The first Vice-President and Chief of Staff of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Russian Federation, Damir Mukhetdinov, said that recently, Mufti Ravil Gainutdin, head of Russian Muslims, appealed to the public, to Muslims that had recently cast doubt on the Holocaust, questioning Auschwitz and other very important, not just historically, memorable dates, namely the points that affect both being, and consciousness: "Ravil Hazrat said that in any case we have neither the moral nor another right to question the results and outcomes of the Holocaust, that great tragedy, and in this regard, appealed to Muslims and to the entire public at large. I think that Russian Muslims and our Jewish brothers - and we perceive them as brothers just because the Holy Qoran, much of the scripture is devoted to the Jews and turned to the Jews - talking about how in the world today, in our time, in our state to build a good relationship."
Damir Mukhetdinov called his "partners in the Abrahamic religions" with the idea of creating a permanent council "to ensure that our communication is not from case to case, not from conference to conference, and was of a systemic nature and is expressed in the form of research in the form of tables and scientific seminars. It is very important to our Muslim youth and, students who study in madrassas and universities, deeply from the carriers of Jewish tradition could understand and grasp the closeness of our faiths, religions and views on certain issues, because there is a lot of misunderstanding. When you have the opportunity to chat with a rabbi in the Jewish community, and vice versa, if our Jewish brothers will invite representatives of the Imams and Muslim clerics, scholars, that they for their part told this or that position of Islam on a particularly urgent problem, I think it will bring us even closer. And what we call a clash of civilizations, that militancy, calls for the total destruction of everything, there will be no ideological grounds for this confrontation."
