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InchDeep on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 11:17:49 AM
Osnabrück to host dialogue with Muslims: report
The Key paragraph.
A small city in the German state of Lower Saxony where Christians
negotiated to end a religious war in the 1600s should be a centre for
Christian-Islamic dialogue today, the state premier told a newspaper on
Tuesday.
I am perfectly willing to negotiate the unconditional surrender of all radical Islalmist. After that the we can talk about.
“Peace between religions and the orderly relationship between the state
and religion is one of the key questions of the 21st century,”
If that first condition is met fine. If not go blow it our your ear. It just a ploy to hold us off the fight against radical Islam, while the Jihad to over throw the world marches forward.
The story from www.thelocal.de
Published: 20 May 08 08:30 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/11969/
A small city in the German state of Lower Saxony where Christians negotiated to end a religious war in the 1600s should be a centre for Christian-Islamic dialogue today, the state premier told a newspaper on Tuesday.
Premier Christian Wulff said the state should sponsor conferences, academic seminars and training for German-speaking imams in Osnabrück, known as the City of Peace.
“Peace between religions and the orderly relationship between the state and religion is one of the key questions of the 21st century,” Wulff, a Christian Democrat, told the newspaper Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung.
Wulff said he and the former mayor of Osnabrück, Hans-Jürgen Fip, a Social Democrat, had already discussed the project. Fip helped bring the German Foundation of Peace Research to Osnabrück.
In 1648, Osnabrück was one of the cities where the end to the 30 Years’ War – a conflict that started as a fight between Protestants and Catholics – was negotiated.
Wulff said the city helped develop a rubric for religious peace – and a new way of thinking about the relationship between church and state – that could be useful today.
He said Lower Saxony should soon sign a treaty with Muslims similar to similar to treaties signed with the federal state’s Protestants in 1955 and with its Catholics in 1965.
DDP/The Local (news@thelocal.de)