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    Zaman, Turkey
    June 10 2005


    Voice of Spiritual Leaders: Religion Rejects Terrorism
    By Erkan Acar
    Published: Friday 10, 2005
    zaman.com


    Turkish Religious Affairs Directorate President Professor Ali
    Bardakoglu has said that religions are never the source of terror,
    violence, and brutality. The President made his speech as part of the
    ongoing "Istanbul Conference on Democracy and Security".

    The priority of religious clerics should be the prevention of
    misrepresentation of religions as approving of terror, violence, and
    injustice. All religions should stand against any kind of
    misperceptions that terror, violence and savagery stem from
    religions, stressed the Director. Terror is a crime against humanity,
    whomever it comes from, Bardakoglu said: "We should explain and teach
    religion in a true way. Religious clerics and theologians should be
    as courageous as those who support terrorism and stand against
    terror, violence and every kind of injustice in an open hearted and
    frank way." Turkish Armenian Patriarch Meshrob II also made a speech
    on the issue of religion and terror with excerpts of holy books.
    Noting that events that terrify, injure, and kill people are crimes
    against humanity, Meshrob II said: "Whatever its goal, terror should
    be damned by all believers ethically. Those, who commit acts of
    terrorism, cannot be accepted as martyrs. This is against the law of
    God." The Chief Rabbi of Jews in Istanbul, Isak Haleva, on the other
    side, said that it has been claimed that many acts of terrorism in
    history were committed in the name of religions, but that religions
    do not approve wars and destructions. Vatican's Turkey representative
    George Marovitch noted that the main reason for humanity's problems
    are insufficient justice, spiritualism and morality.
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