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Friday, 17 December 2010

Shias and Sunnis must unite - Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish PM says

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The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended an Ashura Day ceremony in Istanbul emphasizing that the Karbala tragedy affects all Muslims and should serve as a source of unity among Sunni and Shia Muslims. This was the first time Erdogan has joined the Ashura Day since coming to power in 2002. The commemoration ceremony, honoring the martyrdom of grandson of Holy Prophet s.a.w and the son of Hazrat Ali r.a, Imam Hussain (r.a), was held in Halkali's Ashura Square on Thursday. Nearly 4,000 people attended the ceremony, including top state officials and representatives from diplomatic missions and civil societies.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to Shia Muslims in Istanbul on December 16, 2010 during Ashura Day.


Addressing Shia Muslims, Erdogan said, "Our prayers, cries, and screams have been echoing in the sky for 1,300 years. Hussain's sacrifice is [a] unification rather than a farewell, it is a beginning rather than an end, brotherhood rather than separation. It is solidarity and integration”, Erdogan emphasized at the ceremony, adding that the Karbala tragedy had caused all Muslims pain for more than a millennium. “Nobody is superior to anyone in these lands, not the Sunni to the Shiites, not the Turkish to the Kurdish, the Laz to the Circassian or the Persian to the Arabs,” the prime minister added. “We are all the same in this land, together, brothers.” The prime minister also condemned the terrorist attack during an Ashura ceremony held Wednesday in Iran's Chabahar city, where 39 people were killed and more than 80 wounded. “Killing innocent people is a shameful crime, be it for whatever reason, such as religion, ideology or ethnicity”, Erdogan said. 

Lastly, he urged the Sunnis and Shias to put aside their differences and unite. Hussain ibn Ali (r.a) was born in Medina in 626 CE and was martyred in 680 CE during the battle of Karbala. He was the son of Ali-ibn Abutalib (r.a), the 4th caliph of the Muslim Ummah. Ashura ceremonies symbolize eternal and unwavering stance of truth against falsehood and humanity's struggle against tyranny realized by Imam Hussein (PBUH). This is for the first time as far as I can remember, after Shah Faisal was martyred, that someone from the Muslim leaders has spoken out such powerful and pure reality based thoughts of Islam to wake the sleeping Muslim masses up.


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Wednesday, 8 December 2010

OIC urges Muslim countries to Take A United Stand against Zionism and Islamophobia


A senior member of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has called on the Islamic countries to take "a unified stance" against Islamophobia in the world. Abdullah Alam, the assistant secretary general of the OIC, stressed on the necessity to develop cooperation among Muslim countries. He made the remarks on Wednesday during a meeting with Iran's permanent ambassador to the OIC, Hamidreza Dehghani. Alam also warned of what he referred to as "the Zionist conspiracies" and called on Muslim nations to unify against the enemies of Islam. Alam and Dehghani discussed latest developments in the Muslim world and problems facing the Islamic countries.

Abdullah Alam, the assistant secretary general of the OIC

The OIC is an international organization with a permanent delegation to the United Nations, with 57 member Muslim states. The rise of Islamophobia in Europe and the USZ has increased since the self made terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 on the USZ World Trade Center. Many political parties and governments in Europe have adopted opposing stances against the Muslim community. Last year, Switzerland imposed a ban on the construction of minarets -- the prayer towers of mosques -- which was passed by a clear public majority in a referendum.

In a separate move, France passed a law which bans women from wearing the burqa -- a Muslim veil for women that covers their face. The law is due to be put into effect from 2011. In 2005, a study by the EU's European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia found that, “Muslims are often victims of negative stereotyping, at times reinforced through negative or selective reporting in the media. In addition, they are vulnerable to manifestations of prejudice and hatred in the form of anything from verbal threats through to physical attacks on people and property”.


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