Interesting there are no courses for 'understanding' Christianity or other faiths for Muslims -- who are the ones seemingly having all the trouble! Watch out this is just the run up to opening an 'Islamic' reading room at the same library. This tells us one thing bombing pays! And the threat of bombing pays! No Hindu reading rooms in sight, Buddhism sounds interesting ~ I suppose you can find those books over the back ~ as they might offend!
Kicking off the courses and events planned for 2010 at St Deiniols Library in Hawarden, Flintshire, is a topical event, which seeks to break through the media hype and controversy surrounding the Islam.
“Understanding Islam” is a weekend course, delivered by Dr Chris Hewer, whose speciality is Christian-Muslim relations.
The course is an opportunity for anyone of any faith or level of understanding to learn more about Islam, ask questions and shape their own views.
Warden of St. Deiniol’s Library, Peter Francis, believes that it is important to run the course at the library, which was established by Prime Minister Gladstone in 1894.
“Gladstone, if he were alive today, would be active in promoting understanding between Islam and Christianity. As a person of faith and as a politician he would work to counter the ignorance and suspicion of each other’s faith traditions that is one of the contributory causes of so much national and international tension.”
Course leader, Dr Chris Hewer, has worked in Christian-Muslim relations based in Birmingham since 1986, and from 1999 – 2005 was adviser on interfaith relations to the Bishop of Birmingham. He now works in London as the St. Ethelburga Fellow in Christian-Muslim relations.
President of the Christian-Muslim Forum, Dr. Ataullah Siddiqui, who has endorsed the course, said “Dialogue between Christians and Muslims is not a matter of choice, it is an imperative. A place like St Deiniol’s can provide a regular meeting place for people and ideas, encouraging honest and open creative dialogue.”
The course is particularly pertinent to St. Deiniol’s Library as it is committed to promoting engagement with the Islamic community and plans to build an Islamic Reading Room in the near future. As Dr Siddiqui has said, “The perception of Islam today is increasingly shaped not only by means of information, but also through misinformation and disinformation. St Deiniol’s initiative is indeed welcome and timely.”
Understanding Islam starts on Friday 22nd January. The weekend can be attended on a residential or non-residential basis. Prices start at £140. For more information please contact St Deiniol’s Library on 01244 532350 or visit www.st-deiniols.org
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What a shame it is so expensive!
Otherwise, I would suggest large groups of atheists attending and asking all those awkward questions that are so disliked.
For example: If islam 'liberated' women by allowing them to own property, which - according to the Dhimmies - they didn't have before, how come Mo's first wife was a rich business women?
Seriously, just complaining about these understanding islam things is not enough. We should go there in numbers and demand answers and an unravelling of the tangles caused by taqyya.
This is my understanding of Islam
Chris Hewer delivered a course on Understanding Christianity at Stockwell Green Mosque in London!
Just posted this on our website http://www.christianmuslimforum.org/subpage.asp?id=375&mainid=20&
We were set up to improve understanding of and between both faiths.
Julian Bond
Director
Christian Muslim Forum
http://www.christianmuslimforum.org
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