The people and the European institutions came together in Paris to witness to the values of liberty, equality and fraternity. With them were representatives of the Catholic Church and other Christian churches, the Jewish community and Muslim Communities. In Paris there were only Europeans, but the call for solidarity against religious fanaticism are missed - with some notable exceptions - too many influential voices in the Arab world and the Muslim communities. Yet at stake are not just European values, but also the outcome of the internal conflict to Islam and states that it inspired, which lengthens the shadow of the new Caliphate. Today we understand that peace, without calling the center values and fundamental human rights that guarantee it, it becomes an empty word: the right to life, education, health, freedom of expression and religion, responsibility towards others, justice, solidarity, mutual respect. And that no kill that the murder in the name of God becomes contempt of their own and other peoples religion, as recalled by Pope Francis and the imam of Paris and Rome. Here lies a passage without which you do not create sustainable foundations for dialogue. Islam is not a religion of violence, but I think it is necessary that the Islamic communities go beyond just taken away from those who kill and spread terror in the name of Allah and begin to ask why the Koran can be interpreted by so many in a form such inhuman. Sure, they weigh the unresolved issues in the Middle East, the wars of the West wrong, eradication and poverty of millions of refugees, but also the theocratic dictatorships and the failure of some Arab Spring. Of course, he is right who - as the director of this newspaper - has said and written that we are all Charlie, because we consider unacceptable answer with a murder offense to religious feeling, but that we are not all Charlie for the way to interpret the freedom of expression and satire satirical weekly that sometimes had, without placing responsibly care not to exceed the limit of the lack of respect for different sensibilities and religious beliefs. And woe if the right to freedom of expression was not even the right to criticism of the use made of it. Here is the difference between a democratic regime and one absolutist, between secularism and secularism. All of us - as says Baumann - we must learn to go beyond a superficial multiculturalism that recognizes cultures different from our own, but ignores or rejects what is sacred and non-negotiable. But understanding the complexities of intercultural and interreligious dialogue can not allow any waiver of its responsibilities. I always thought that the lack of a Church institution and Councils, ie occasions supranational comparison between religious and secular Muslims, as well as the reluctance to develop a common approach on the relationship between religious and state powers, giving rise to uncertainty, arbitrariness absolutism or interpretive, and voiceless authoritative moderate Muslims. This feeds mistrust all Islam and inhibits new possible routes within the Islamic community, which is rather dutiful favor. Italy, despite many contradictions, has always chosen the path of interculturalism, compared to that of British multiculturalism and assimilation French, probably the most promising for the mutual recognition, but on the basis of values and common rights, and provided that this is not only declared but not practiced, and that does not involve the loss of the their identity, cultural relativism or intellectual pride. Next to the challenge of security, peace and development cooperation, we have to start together in Europe and in Italy by the education and culture inclusive, basing them on the values of a common dignity and freedom, human rights carved in the UN Charter and the ability to create fraternity.
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 08:22:39 +0000
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