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This document summarizes a conference held by the Latin Academy in Muscat, Oman on the topic of dialogue between civilizations. The conference brought together intellectuals and academics from around the world to discuss cultural and religious values across countries and find ways to curb terrorism through international cooperation and promoting tolerance. Notable attendees included the former President of Portugal Jorge Sampaio, who was an influential voice calling for increased cooperation between world civilizations.
This document summarizes a conference held by the Latin Academy in Muscat, Oman on the topic of dialogue between civilizations. The conference brought together intellectuals and academics from around the world to discuss cultural and religious values across countries and find ways to curb terrorism through international cooperation and promoting tolerance. Notable attendees included the former President of Portugal Jorge Sampaio, who was an influential voice calling for increased cooperation between world civilizations.
This document summarizes a conference held by the Latin Academy in Muscat, Oman on the topic of dialogue between civilizations. The conference brought together intellectuals and academics from around the world to discuss cultural and religious values across countries and find ways to curb terrorism through international cooperation and promoting tolerance. Notable attendees included the former President of Portugal Jorge Sampaio, who was an influential voice calling for increased cooperation between world civilizations.
such a considerable conference on the "dialogue between different civilizations," with such
tremendous and celebrated gathering in terms of the luminaries names and numbers. This cause
has been and is still specifically to pique the curiosity of numerous statesmen, intelligentsia and journalists in our Arab World, and by all means that of academics in a more holistic sense. This is triggered in view of the problematic estrangement and drastic disturbance, by which the relation
between the east and the west is markedly characterized, and due to the conflict of interests and objectives, as well as the domination on the part of specific despotic countries. Let alone the dilemma of Islamophobia, being mooted at present within the western community and in the United States. This enigmatic issue has
been lodged against Islam and Muslims due to the 11 terrorist acts, which had culminated in the wake of the 9/11 events, and which have exacerbated with 2001 the augmentation of terrorist groups' and takfirist guerrillas' activities, especially the emergence of the third generation of the Islamic State of Iraq And Sham (ISIS) and al-Nusra Front guerillas. Such guerillas have, in terms of the hardline thinking,
orientation, dawah, instruments, route and modus operandi of operations, surpassed the generation of al-Qaeda organization, being the founder of a . new atrocious wave of terror regionally and worldwide. This conference is organized by the Latin Academy, concerned often throughout the bygone years with conducting the dialogue of civilization
and effecting intercultural concordance and the convergence of the values of the world countries,
particularly in the third world, Latin American countries and western and European communities. The Latin Academy has decided this time to be hosted in a GCC country: Sultanate of Oman. A dialogue, having lasted for three successive days 9 throughout 9 laborious and extended sessions, has been first conducted by the Academy in a GCC country and in Muscat in particular in the presence . of this all constellation of intellectuals and academics from multifarious world countries. The topic of these vividly heated discussions was on the cultural and religious values governing all the various world countries and continents in light
of the culture pluralism, which consists in one of . the frameworks and mechanisms of the dialogue of civilizations. The Latin Academy had held 27 conferences in 27 numerous world countries on the dialogue among civilizations and acts of the concordance and
interaction among the multifarious cultures entertained by all world peoples and countries.
Two of these conferences were held in Egypt (i.e., in Cairo and Alexandria). Nevertheless, the Muscat conference in this year is being held in synchronization with the increased aggravation and exacerbation of risky terror, which is rendered to be a fearful obsession for many world countries
not only the Middle East countries. The participants at the Muscat conference strived to find out the mechanism of international cooperation, the common factors of the opportunities and chances to ensure the success of the joint values of cultural cooperation and the convergence among civilization in order to curb the terrorist ghoul, and to disseminate the values . of tolerance, peace and coexistence apart from the culture of decapitation, wherein al-Qaeda, the ISIS and al-Nusra have excelled. Despite the multiplicity of celebrated intellectuals and well-noted orientalists from Europe, Latin America and Asia, the Arab attendees, especially
from the GCC, the bulk of whom was from Oman and Lebanon, and some from the Maghreb
countries, were quite a sizable gathering. H. E. Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, the UN High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations, also attended. The Muscat conference took us as usual by surprise when Jorge Sampaio, being the former President of Portugal and one of the
pioneering intellectuals of the dialogue of civilization thinking at present, enriched the discussions held at the Conferences halls for long spans of time with his arguments and . interventions.
Sampaio was one of those who vehemently called
for the promptness required to effect cooperation and convergence among the world countries
peoples and their thinking, and to arrange the multicultural values for the sake of unifying the
political, cultural and religious discourse. The man defiantly advocated for respecting the values and culture of Islam and Arab World as being one of the foremost tributaries of the worlds cultures, . and further slammed the charges being casted on Islam and the stigmas of terror being imputed thereto. By means of a highbrow and prolonged worksheet, H.E. Sheikh Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Salmi, the Minister of Awqaf and Religious Affairs in the
Sultanate of Oman, whose Ministry and state were entrusted to held this Conference in collaboration
with the Latin Academy, managed to rivet the attention of the gathering. The Minister refuted and unearthed numerous misstatements, being alleged by the western leadership, media and culture against Islam, through openly showing up all the terrorist groups in the region. The Minister
alluded the atrocious and ferocious war waged by the west and some others against Islam. It is exigent to find out common values amongst the threesome monotheist religions in the world in order to halt the bloody animosity. It is exigent to encourage the establishment of more friendly and . amicable rapports and synergisms between Muslims and Christians. Furthermore, the Minister presented a historical account of the down-to-earth accomplishments of the founding Muslim predecessors, who influenced
the western civilizations, and transmitted the Arab and Islamic cultures to the west. The Ministers
call, which was satisfactorily welcomed, for the Vatican to exigently abandon its historic confrontation to the dialogue and partnership with the Muslim world. It is also exigent to oppose the fundamentalist hawks and to object skepticism harbored by many people against the common
factors of values and ethics. The following significant and necessary enquiry has been also posed by the Minister at the Conference sessions: . Have the open-door and synergy policies as well as the initiatives of partnership failed and been of . no avail? His answer was Of course, it haven't: the Minister Al Salmi confessed that the conceptions and policies of tolerance, understanding and
admission did not fail. Yet, they are exigently prerequisite in order to render the dialogue among
civilizations a success and to deepen the common values. Indeed, the Muscat Conference was rife with the profound ideas and discussions, rich dialogue, numerous worksheets and various arguments, which is tantamount to be a new revolution for rendering the success of
opportunities of convergence and concordance among the world continents cultures, values and . realms of life so that the dialogue of civilization can be replenished. The most crucial point, which deserves attention, is yet in the method of application and enforceability, which is to be vested to the United . Nations through its multifarious entities and to the academics, intelligentsia and orientalists, who
have stood the test at the Muscat Conference. They have to encourage their governments and peoples in order to trigger alterations in a bid to anew regain the dialogue among civilizations, . render it a success, and have it consecrated.
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