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I was talking with the shiekh yesterday about our leaders and non Muslim leaders who kicked the Israel ambassador from their country in addition what If Bush or Blair become Muslim, and he mentioned he read that Blair reading Quran and praising it I was like Hmm, if he become Muslim all what he did to Muslim will be nothing ....but we never know... who Allah might guide ?
This the first article:
Tony Blair Praises the QuranTony Blair made some chilling comments about the Quran in a speech given to the Foreign Policy Centre and Reuters. I fear he will regret his words. Saying:
"The Qur’an "is practical and way ahead of its time". "The most remarkable thing about reading the Koran – in so far as it can be truly translated from the original Arabic - is to understand how progressive it is.
"I speak with great diffidence and humility as a member of another faith. I am not qualified to make any judgements. But as an outsider, the Koran strikes me as a reforming book, trying to return Judaism and Christianity to their origins, rather as reformers attempted with the Christian Church centuries later. It is inclusive. It extols science and knowledge and abhors superstition. It is practical and way ahead of its time in attitudes to marriage, women and governance," he said.
He added that under the guidance of the Qur’an, the spread of Islam and its dominance over previously Christian or pagan lands was "breathtaking".
"Over centuries it founded an Empire, leading the world in discovery, art and culture. We look back to the early Middle Ages, the standard bearers of tolerance at that time were far more likely to be found in Muslim lands than in Christian," he declared. source
Second Article
Berlin - Religious faith - any faith - is needed in order fully to grasp the Middle East conflict, former British prime minister Tony Blair said Tuesday in an interview with a German weekly, Die Zeit. "If religious faith were not to play any role in the 21st century, which I cannot imagine, something decisive would be missing," he said, according to the German version of the interview.
Blair, 55, said his own Catholic beliefs helped him in his current role as envoy for Mideast peace.
"In the first place, you understand what it means to believe. What you often find is that you immediately have something in common with another person of faith, even if he belongs to a different religion.
"As well as that, one is interested in other religions. One's motivation is greater. I regularly read the Koran, practically every day," Blair told the interviewer. He said the Prophet Mohammed had been "an enormously civilizing force."
But when asked if he planned to convert to Islam, he smiled and said, "No, let's not start on that," Die Zeit reported.
Asked about a perception among Muslims that they are oppressed, he said, "You tell me who oppresses the Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq.
"We have overthrown two brutal dictatorships. Then we let the people decide for themselves who to have as a government. The people went to the polls and voted. Then we provided 20 billion dollars in aid.
"Then Muslims incite other Muslims to kill their fellow Muslims. Now tell me, who is oppressing Muslims? Them or me?"
Blair's remarks were translated from German back to English by Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Blair is mediating between Israel and the Palestinians as envoy for the Middle East Quartet, a consortium of the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations.
I was talking with the shiekh yesterday about our leaders and non Muslim leaders who kicked the Israel ambassador from their country in addition what If Bush or Blair become Muslim, and he mentioned he read that Blair reading Quran and praising it I was like Hmm, if he become Muslim all what he did to Muslim will be nothing ....but we never know... who Allah might guide ?
This the first article:
Tony Blair Praises the QuranTony Blair made some chilling comments about the Quran in a speech given to the Foreign Policy Centre and Reuters. I fear he will regret his words. Saying:
"The Qur’an "is practical and way ahead of its time". "The most remarkable thing about reading the Koran – in so far as it can be truly translated from the original Arabic - is to understand how progressive it is.
"I speak with great diffidence and humility as a member of another faith. I am not qualified to make any judgements. But as an outsider, the Koran strikes me as a reforming book, trying to return Judaism and Christianity to their origins, rather as reformers attempted with the Christian Church centuries later. It is inclusive. It extols science and knowledge and abhors superstition. It is practical and way ahead of its time in attitudes to marriage, women and governance," he said.
He added that under the guidance of the Qur’an, the spread of Islam and its dominance over previously Christian or pagan lands was "breathtaking".
"Over centuries it founded an Empire, leading the world in discovery, art and culture. We look back to the early Middle Ages, the standard bearers of tolerance at that time were far more likely to be found in Muslim lands than in Christian," he declared. source
Second Article
Berlin - Religious faith - any faith - is needed in order fully to grasp the Middle East conflict, former British prime minister Tony Blair said Tuesday in an interview with a German weekly, Die Zeit. "If religious faith were not to play any role in the 21st century, which I cannot imagine, something decisive would be missing," he said, according to the German version of the interview.
Blair, 55, said his own Catholic beliefs helped him in his current role as envoy for Mideast peace.
"In the first place, you understand what it means to believe. What you often find is that you immediately have something in common with another person of faith, even if he belongs to a different religion.
"As well as that, one is interested in other religions. One's motivation is greater. I regularly read the Koran, practically every day," Blair told the interviewer. He said the Prophet Mohammed had been "an enormously civilizing force."
But when asked if he planned to convert to Islam, he smiled and said, "No, let's not start on that," Die Zeit reported.
Asked about a perception among Muslims that they are oppressed, he said, "You tell me who oppresses the Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq.
"We have overthrown two brutal dictatorships. Then we let the people decide for themselves who to have as a government. The people went to the polls and voted. Then we provided 20 billion dollars in aid.
"Then Muslims incite other Muslims to kill their fellow Muslims. Now tell me, who is oppressing Muslims? Them or me?"
Blair's remarks were translated from German back to English by Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Blair is mediating between Israel and the Palestinians as envoy for the Middle East Quartet, a consortium of the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations.