08.12.2021
Azerbaijan
Mufti Gaynutdin took part in the international conference on interreligious dialogue
On 7th of December, Chairman of the Religious Board of Muslims of the Russian Federation, General Secretary of the Muslim International Forum Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gaynutdin took part in the international conference "Interreligious Dialogue as a guarantor of global security and religious revival".
The event was organized by the State Committee on Religious Associations of the Republic of Azerbaijan jointly with the Representation of Azerbaijan to the European Union and the European Parliament's Intergroup on Freedom of Religion, Belief and Religious Tolerance.
The conference was attended by leaders of religious confessions from different countries, well-known statesmen and politicians of the European Union and the European Parliament. Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gaynutdin performed as a speaker on behalf of Russian Muslims at the personal invitation of the State Committee on Religious Organizations of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
The main objective of the conference with a representative number of participants was to call on the world community, religious figures, heads of state, scientists to cooperate in the fight against terrorism, extremism, religious radicalism, including xenophobia, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia. The conference participants discussed a variety of acute problems of the modern world. Particular attention was paid to migration processes and related socio-economic problems that have taken on a global character. Hundreds of thousands of refugees from North Africa, the Middle East, and Asian countries, left homeless and destitute as a result of different conflicts, require the closest attention, assistance, and human sympathy. The problem of forced migrants sets new challenges for traditional societies. The problems of interreligious and intercultural tolerance are significantly aggravated in the light of new realities.
Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gaynutdin, in his speech at the conference, confirmed the principled position of Russian Muslims: religious leaders of different faiths, who unite billions of followers across all countries and continents, should exert all their strength, all their authority in creating global security and religious revival.
Russian Muslims share the universal concern about global instability, isolation, and collective rejection. The Mufti stressed that uniting people of faith and their joint word in defense of humanism can prevent the most negative scenarios of the development of human civilization. In all global initiatives of the Religious Board of Muslims, at the sites of the Muslim International Forum, the Conference "Spiritual Silk Road", russian muslims strive to promote a informative and mutually interested dialogue of religious figures of different traditions.
Russian muslims emphasize the main principle: religions and peoples should come together not for complete mixing, unification and loss of their own face, but in order to remain themselves, to know and understand each other, preserving the beauty and diversity of the world. Such pluralism, the religious leader of Russian Muslims noted, is the will of the Almighty and His command. The relevance of interreligious dialogue around the world is emphasized by the participation in the conference of spiritual leaders, statesmen, high representatives of the European Union countries and parliamentarians from different countries.
Mufti Gaynutdin's position was fully supported in his speeches by well-known religious and political figures: Jan Olbricht, co-chairman of the Working Group of the European Party on Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue, Mustafa Alish Haji, Chief Mufti of the Muslim community of the Republic of Bulgaria, Christian Akerhilm, Chairman of the Board of the International Association "Word of Life" and other participants of the event.
The practical results of the international conference "Interreligious Dialogue as a guarantor of global security and spiritual revival" will be brought to the governments of countries and leaders of world faiths.
The event was organized by the State Committee on Religious Associations of the Republic of Azerbaijan jointly with the Representation of Azerbaijan to the European Union and the European Parliament's Intergroup on Freedom of Religion, Belief and Religious Tolerance.
The conference was attended by leaders of religious confessions from different countries, well-known statesmen and politicians of the European Union and the European Parliament. Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gaynutdin performed as a speaker on behalf of Russian Muslims at the personal invitation of the State Committee on Religious Organizations of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
The main objective of the conference with a representative number of participants was to call on the world community, religious figures, heads of state, scientists to cooperate in the fight against terrorism, extremism, religious radicalism, including xenophobia, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia. The conference participants discussed a variety of acute problems of the modern world. Particular attention was paid to migration processes and related socio-economic problems that have taken on a global character. Hundreds of thousands of refugees from North Africa, the Middle East, and Asian countries, left homeless and destitute as a result of different conflicts, require the closest attention, assistance, and human sympathy. The problem of forced migrants sets new challenges for traditional societies. The problems of interreligious and intercultural tolerance are significantly aggravated in the light of new realities.
Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gaynutdin, in his speech at the conference, confirmed the principled position of Russian Muslims: religious leaders of different faiths, who unite billions of followers across all countries and continents, should exert all their strength, all their authority in creating global security and religious revival.
Russian Muslims share the universal concern about global instability, isolation, and collective rejection. The Mufti stressed that uniting people of faith and their joint word in defense of humanism can prevent the most negative scenarios of the development of human civilization. In all global initiatives of the Religious Board of Muslims, at the sites of the Muslim International Forum, the Conference "Spiritual Silk Road", russian muslims strive to promote a informative and mutually interested dialogue of religious figures of different traditions.
Russian muslims emphasize the main principle: religions and peoples should come together not for complete mixing, unification and loss of their own face, but in order to remain themselves, to know and understand each other, preserving the beauty and diversity of the world. Such pluralism, the religious leader of Russian Muslims noted, is the will of the Almighty and His command. The relevance of interreligious dialogue around the world is emphasized by the participation in the conference of spiritual leaders, statesmen, high representatives of the European Union countries and parliamentarians from different countries.
Mufti Gaynutdin's position was fully supported in his speeches by well-known religious and political figures: Jan Olbricht, co-chairman of the Working Group of the European Party on Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue, Mustafa Alish Haji, Chief Mufti of the Muslim community of the Republic of Bulgaria, Christian Akerhilm, Chairman of the Board of the International Association "Word of Life" and other participants of the event.
The practical results of the international conference "Interreligious Dialogue as a guarantor of global security and spiritual revival" will be brought to the governments of countries and leaders of world faiths.