Saudi King Abdullah leads religious tolerance meeting for peace in Middle East. Israel Peres praises

Saudi King Abdullah leads religious tolerance meeting for peace in Middle East. Israel prime minister Shimon Peres praises Saudi King Abdullah, saying he wishes King Abdullah's voice to prevail in the region. Saudi King Abdullah shows love of God. Worldwide minister and author of God vs. Religion praises the peaceful discourse between King Abdullah and Israel’s Prime Minister Shimon Peres. http://www.PaulFDavis.com
Conquering conflict, building mutually advantageous agreements, and making peace is vital for the Middle East. Two tools to help transcend conflict and reform any situation. http://paulfdavis.adesso2.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=YQVZH6LZ http://paulfdavis.hypcontrol.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=YQVZH6LZ Saudi King Abdullah leads religious tolerance meeting for peace in Middle East. Israel prime minister Shimon Perez praises Saudi King Abdullah, saying he wishes King Abdullah's voice to prevail in the region. Saudi King Abdullah shows love of God. King Abdullah, ruler of conservative Saudi Arabia, attended a meeting at the United Nations to discuss his initiative to promote interfaith dialogue. King Abdullah, whose country bans non-Muslims from openly practising their religion and imprisons many for exercising their own faith, called for religious tolerance. This was probably greeted with awe, surprise, and great happiness by the thousands of Christian contract workers in Saudi from the Philippines, India, Indonesia, and elsewhere throughout the world. To date even bringing a Bible into the country has been said to be forbidden and a punishable crime. Some legal reformation following King Abdullah's words would be appropriate should he truly be sincere. A glorious and unprecendented step in the right direction, wORLD leaders called for religious tolerance at a UN conference sponsored by Saudi Arabia, a country where only a strict Wahabbi form of Islam is allowed. The meeting at UN headquarters in New York, gathering 80 countries including some 20 heads of state, was billed as a chance to heal religious and cultural divisions often referred to as the clash of civilizations. Extending the olive branch, Saudi King Abdullah called for peace and harmony, describing terrorism as the enemy of every religion and every civilization. White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said President Bush welcomes the opportunity to have this event, and he believes that the king of Saudi Arabia has recognised that they have a long way to go and that he is trying to take some steps to get there. Jordan's King Abdullah II also criticized Western policy, saying ignorance has subjected Islam to injustice at the hands of the West. Millions of people, especially young people, question whether the West means what it says about equality, respect and universal justice. Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres said Muslims and Jews were getting closer to peace. However he issued a thinly veiled attack on arch foe Iran, saying "there are those in our region who sow hatred ... those who seek to wipe out other people". Many in European countries and the United States see Islamic states as inhumane, grossly lacking religious and social freedom for people within their countries. One case in point is in Afghanistan, where 8 school girls were viciously brutalized by men with acid in spray bottles, whose cold religious beliefs instigated outlandish acts of torture on school girls causing blindness, irrepairable skin damage on the face, and extreme suffering. About 1,500 girls stayed home from school in Afghanistan afterward, fearing for the safety. The two attackers oppose the education of women. Critics in the run-up to the conference have honed in on Saudi King Abdullah's role, questioning whether the leader of the rigid Wahhabi sect of Islam was the right person to promote inter-faith relations. Certainly King Abdullah has much influence throughout the harsh Islamic world and his comments for peace are welcomed. However a bit more of this will be needed to see reformation in Saudi Arabia and other Islamic states where human rights are daily violated in the name of religion. "There is no religious freedom in Saudi Arabia, yet the kingdom asks the world to listen to its message of religious tolerance," Sarah Leah Whitson, the Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, said ahead of the conference. Nevertheless Israel's Prime Minister Shimon Peres welcomed the king's initiative as unprecedented. Truly the King could be a history maker if he were to put feet to his faith and peace initiative. Wahhabism is an ultra-orthodox form of Islam. Under Saudi rule, other Islamic sects and other religions are either restricted or banned altogether in public. Countless Christian contract workers in Saudi from other countries have been imprisoned and punished for exercising their faith, even within their own apartments and homes privately. Israeli President Shimon Peres seized the rare opportunity of being in the same hall as Saudi King Abdullah to praise a Saudi peace initiative that he said had brought hope to the Middle East. It was a rare moment -- an Israeli head of state speaking directly to the Saudi Arabian leader, whose country does not recognize Israel. Egypt and Jordan are the only Arab countries to have signed full peace accords with the Jewish state. Israeli officials, including Peres, have previously said Israel was seriously reconsidering the 2002 Saudi peace initiative, which calls for full Arab recognition of Israel if it gives up lands occupied in a 1967 war and accepts a solution for Palestinian refugees. But this was the first time a representative of Israel was able to address Abdullah directly. "Your Majesty, the King of Saudi Arabia, I was listening to your message," Peres said from the podium after the king spoke of the need for religious tolerance and said terrorism was the enemy of religion. "I wish that your voice will become the prevailing voice of the whole region, of all people," Peres told Abdullah. "It's right, it's needed, it's promising."
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