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WORLDWIDE NEWS OF RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE, 2003-DECEMBER
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2003-DEC-7: Evangelical Christian seminary to launch
interfaith program: Fuller Theological Seminary is using
Federal government funds to promote a $1 million interfaith program.
They have developed a proposed code would teach Christians and Muslims
in the Los Angeles CA area to refrain from making offensive statements
about the other's religion, to affirm a mutual belief in one God, and to
prohibit proselytizing over the two-year span of the project. They also
plan to write a book on the topic. Sherwood Lingenfelter, Fuller's
provost and senior vice president said: "We hope to lead a large
portion of evangelical Christians into a better understanding of Islam.
After 9/11 there was a great deal of hostility in the Christian
community toward Muslims." The program may have been motivated in
part by televangelist Jerry Falwell's description of the Prophet
Muhammad as a terrorist and the former president of the Southern Baptist
Convention, Rev. Jerry Vines' comment that Islam's founder was a "demon-possessed
pedophile.'' Former head of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern
California, Yahia Abdul-Rahman, said: "We are changing the course
away from accusations and poisoning the well of relations to what can
develop into a project in the service of God.'' However, John Revell,
a spokesperson for the Southern Baptists' executive committee appears to
be opposed to the interfaith project. He said: "For Fuller to declare
that Christians and Muslims worship the same God would be a radical
departure, not only from the evangelical tradition but also the tenets
of orthodox Christianity.'' 10
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2003-DEC-21: Islamic leader praises tolerance:
Sayyid Syeed, secretary general of the Islamic Society of North
America, addressed St Petersburg, FL, Muslims. He said that that
tolerance for other faiths and respect for women by American Muslims has
made Islam in America a model for the rest of the Muslim world. He said
that America's standing as the world's lone superpower gives it a
special duty to ensure its Muslim community continues to thrive. Despite
concerns from many Muslims that their civil liberties have been
threatened in the name of national security, America has largely held up
its end of the bargain. Syeed said: "What we experienced here on 9/11
was a tragedy of colossal magnitude. But we passed that test." 11
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- Robert King, "Islamic
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Copyright © 2003 by Ontario Consultants on Religious
Tolerance
Originally written: 2003-DEC-2
Latest update: 2003-DEC-24
Compiler: B.A. Robinson 
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