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Supreme dreams: The Custodian of the Two Holy Shmoly Mosques invited some non-believers to Madrid to participate in some interfaith charades, er, dialogue. (For obvious reasons, holding it in Saudi Arabia wasn’t an option). All went well with the schmoozing until the end, when a final communiqué revealed the organizers’ true colours. (I believe they were green, the colour of Muslim supremacism). From the New York Sun:

…The communiqué, a four page final statement that condemns a list of woes ranging from terrorism to sexual promiscuity, also urges Abdullah to convene "a special UN session on dialogue" between religions.

The statement also declared:

"Terrorism is a universal phenomenon that requires unified international efforts to combat it in a serious, responsible and just way. This demands an international agreement on defining terrorism, addressing its root causes and achieving justice and stability in the world."

And the statement urged people "to reject theories that call for the clash of civilizations."

The statement does not mention any religions by name.

The final statement, which was read by an official with the Muslim World League, Abdul Rahman Al-Zaid, rankled several of the conference participants because it differed from an earlier agreed upon draft. Under pressure from a conference participant, William Vendley of Religions for Peace, a second version was subsequently drafted which attributed the communiqué to the "conveners" of the conference and not the participants, as the earlier version had.

One complaint, which two participants voiced on condition of anonymity, is that the communiqué called for the Muslim World League to select some of the delegates for the suggested upon United Nations conference on interfaith dialogue.

The major complaint of many participants was that the document appears to have been revised at some stage without the consent of members of a drafting committee. And the vast majority of participants never had a chance to review any version of the statement before Mr. Al-Zaid of the Muslim World League read it aloud.

"For us as participants from other religions this is not an acceptable procedure for adopting documents," a Russian Orthodox priest participating in the conference, George Ryabykh, said.

Get used to it, George. That’s generally the procedure when kafirs let down their guard and become dhimmis.

Update: The Arab News headline about the confab reads "Dialogue is essential for peace."

Of course it is. Only, when we talk about "peace," we mean it in the biblical sense of "they shall beat their swords into plowshares/spears into pruning hooks." When Wahhabis talk "peace" they mean it in the Islamic sense--the "peace" that will prevail once Islam does.

Dialogue? I don't think so. More like a case of talking at cross purposes.

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