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Its newly sensitive appraisal of Islam eclipsed the somewhat less felicitous but potentially more powerful final sentence of paragraph 3: "On behalf of all mankind, let them [Muslims and Christians] make common cause of safeguarding and fostering social justice, moral values, peace and freedom [et pro omnibus hominibus justiciam Ralph Braibanti is James B.
This would be the natural fulfillment of the Qur'anic injunction for the universalization of Islam, It was aptly, even prophetically, described by Alya Ali Izetbegovich, the Muslim President of Bosnia-Herzegovina: "Their [Islam and Christianity] kinship, if we draw all the necessary conclusions from it, could direct the relations of these two great world religions to an entirely new dimension in the future ....
Russian, Chinese, and French attitudes toward Islam are more empathetic, in part because of commerce, competition in the Central Asian republics, a more sympathetic view of the Arab cause in Palestine, and (in the case of France) the growing political power of the Muslim immigrant minority and their progeny.
These incidents eclipse declarations unequivocally denouncing terrorism issued by Muslim groups in America and Europe and by the Organization of the Islamic Conference, the League of Arab States, the Muslim World League, the Gulf Cooperation Council, and Al-Azhar University.
The chasm between the secular values now regnant in the United States and in most of the West and Islamic values grows wider even as the appreciation of the similarity of Muslim-Christian social values deepens.
Two international conferences on critical social issues recently held are examples of the political potential of Christian-Muslim common cause in action.