Face to face in name of peace


  • Letters
  • Sunday, 15 Aug 2004

Tolerance and moderation were the keys words at two conferences held just kilometres apart in Kuala Lumpur – each speaking to different congregations: Muslim and Christian. No one threw stones as they both strove for peace, writes SUHAINI AZNAM. 

FIVE hundred years after downing swords during the Crusades, these once-sworn enemies not only welcomed the same keynote speaker, a Muslim scholar whose grandfather founded an Islamic school, but they spoke the same tongue – the language of peace. 

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