The freedom of democracy.
June 9th, 2010
On this blog, in which we narrate our inquest “European Muslims” for RaiUno, we have excerpted a phrase by a woman who has responsibility in the Muslim community. This phrase should make you reflect, free of the usual schemes that divide rather than unite. For now we choose to leave it anonymous, it would be wrong to label before properly understanding the mining of these few lines. Each and every one of you should feel free to respond; your arguments might be agreed or disagreed with. This is the freedom of democracy: to challenge each other in order to understand and build peace and harmony: “in its complexity Islam is more a doctrine than a religion, a philosophy of life, for both men and women and has never been incompatible with Western values. The problem does not lie within the religion itself, but in its interpretation, in fanatic speeches that sometimes tend to distort the religious content according to personal ideas. We must work to increase awareness, to promote a tolerant Islam that fits its self to the western lifestyle, this should benefit Muslims and whoever practices a different religion: Christians or Jews.
Without thinking that after the other one dies…doesn’t it mean our death too?
February 20th, 2009
Returning from the fields ( foto e copyright di luca de mata © ® – tutti i diritti riservati 2007)
Day after day we continue either placing barriers for ourselves or, if not, bringing our own death upon us…without ever thinking that in the end: Isn’t the death of the other our death, too? Blood engenders blood…hatred engenders hatred…
