Comments on: Christian-Muslim Dialogue: Building a Common Society

By: vincent

vincent — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:28:32 +0000

Why hatred between malaysian chinese and native malaysian never ends.

1. Gods forsaked us?

2. Are chinese really wrong to appear on earth at the first place? Wrong creation by Gods?

3. Why the whole world hate us?

4. What people really want from us? Should we be gone and never come back to earth?

By: Abe W Ata

Abe W Ata — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 07:38:47 +0000

Your staff and students will be interested in a recent publication of mine ” Us and Them: Muslim Christian relations and social harmony in Australia” by the Australian Academic Press, of great interest. The publication has been recommended as a reference to all NSW and South Australian government and private schools, and is being nominated for the Prime Minister’s Book Award in 2010.

Several of the chapters contain findings from nationally funded survey conducted in a large number of SCHOOLS including Protestant (Anglican) , Catholic and Muslim throughout Australia.
I have enclosed the table of contents and back cover as a broad guiding statement, below, as several staff would consider using it as a primary reference.

We would value you drawing the attention to them by copying the flyer attached to them,; or directing them to the Australian Academic Press : http://www.australianacademicpress.com.au/Publications/Books/4-921513190.html

or, Melbourne University bookshop link:
http://www.bookshop.unimelb.edu.au/bookshop/p?AU.ata//all

Thanking you.

Abe W Ata (Prof)
Senior Associate Fellow

St Patrick’s Campus – Melbourne
Australian Catholic University

By: And Yet...

And Yet... — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:11:02 +0000

And yet the number of muslims are increasing in US and Europe tremendously……..

By: Malaysia Harapan

Malaysia Harapan — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:41:43 +0000

THE KINDS OF JUDGES THE NATION NEEDS:

1. Judges who are God-fearing and who will stand up for real justice for all the people, regardless of race, religion, culture and political persuasion.

2. Judges who are neither beholden to nor rub shoulder with any political coalition or party, but who intentionally adopt an arm’s length approach in dealing with the Government-of-the-day and the opposition political parties, ensure a level playing field for all parties to the dispute, seek the truth including rigorously scrutinising the processes in obtaining the evidence that are produced in the courts, as well as dispense justice promptly and equitably.

3. Judges who are non-compromising and wise-acting in abstaining from all appearance of evil (to borrow the words of Paul of Tarsus) at all times, so as to maintain their credibility, avoid bringing the judiciary into disrepute and mostly importantly honour God in their lives and court decisions they make.

Pray for more of such judges in the nation.

By: Trencherbone

Trencherbone — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:15:17 +0000

“Christians living in Muslim majority countries remain guarded.” Yes indeed, check out the links under CHRISTIANS at http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/01/everything-you-need-to-know-about-islam.html

By: Jason Loh

Jason Loh — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:45:25 +0000

The whole point of dialogue is to enhance mutual understanding of one another embracing the entire spectrum of faith, meaning both dogma and practice. It’s no point for Christians in *Malaysia* to have dialogue when they are not made to be sensitive and appreciate and learn to emphatise with the concerns of Muslims, especially in the area of morals. To put in other words, Christians should reflect on the impact and implication their cultic and secular expressions convey to Muslims. In this respect, there is much the modern Christians can learn from certain aspect of Islamic habits. At the end of the day, the cultural capitulation of modern Christians to the here and now does not make for a good witness on behalf of the Law *and* Gospel.