Davos Open Forum 2008 - The Comeback of Religion

http://www.weforum.org/openforum/ 24.01.2008
Open Forum - Welcome & The Comeback of Religion: A Potential Danger for the Secular State?

Introducing the Open Forum 2008
With
André Schneider, Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, World Economic Forum
Thomas Wipf, President of the Council, Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches, Switzerland

The Comeback of Religion: A Potential Danger for the Secular State?
Secularization was a decisive step towards peaceful cohabitation of different religions in Europe. However, not every religion considers the separation of state and religion as a natural course of action. For example, Islam is a unity between the sacred and profane spaces of society. Thus, Islamic states claim that the state represents Islamic communities and that state law is rooted in religious law.

1) How can states in Europe guarantee religious plurality and freedom while simultaneously maintaining their own way of life and culture embedded in Christian values and traditions?
2) How does Islam see the relationship between state and religion? Are there any repercussions on the cohabitation of different religions in secularized states?
3) Does Islam face a similar question to the one Christians have intensely struggled with since Enlightenment, namely, recognition of a separation of state and religion?

Mohammad Khatami, President, Foundation for Dialogue Among Civilizations; President of the Islamic Republic of Iran (1997-2005)
Ingrid Mattson, President, Islamic Society of North America, USA
Ulrich Schlüer, Member, Foreign Affairs Committee, National Council of Switzerland, Switzerland
Thomas Wipf, President of the Council, Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches, Switzerland

Moderator
Marco Meier, Journalist, Swiss Television SF, Switzerland

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[kaziabdal]

Has Ingrid Mattson ever met Cheryl Bernard at the Council on Foreign Relations. She wrote the RAND study about using money to corrupt Islam and turn it into a pale imitation of Unitarian Universalism.

And what does the Quran say about helping missionaries and others that r enemies of Islam?

read the pdf report on US Muslim Engagement

[shahabkhatibi]

Thanks alot

[HosseinGhiasi]

thank you a lot