This declaration was announced
at the Peace for Humanity Conference, organised by Minhaj-ul-Quran International
and held under the auspices of Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, at
the Wembley Arena in London, on 24th September 2011, and endorsed by the Grand
Shaykh of Al-Azhar Dr Ahmad Muhammad Al-Tayyib, The World Association of Al-Azhar
Graduates and religious representatives of all faiths, scholars, politicians,
and 11,000 participants present from all around the world.
Preamble:
Recent decades have seen the world’s great faith and cultural communities torn
apart by misunderstandings and mistrust to such an unfortunate degree that
people of good intentions towards each other are now compelled to declare their
unequivocal rejection of the beliefs and activities that divide them and their
unreserved embrace of the beliefs and activities that unite them.
We, the signatories to this ‘London Declaration for Global Peace & Resistance
against Extremism’, affirm that all humans everywhere possess inherent dignity
and immutable rights: these including freedom from poverty, oppression, fear and
prejudice and freedom of belief, worship and expression.
This declaration is being launched by Muslims for the Muslims of the world and
for the rest of humanity.
Declaration:
We the signatories to this declaration send a message of peace and fraternity to
all of humanity’s innumerable states, nations, communities and individuals along
with a call for respect, dignity, compassion, equality, solidarity and justice
for, and between, all people.
We address our call for peace, tolerance and respect to all people everywhere,
but especially to political and religious leaders and decision-makers as well as
to scholars, teachers and journalists.
While we recognise the unique differences between faiths, cultures and
communities, and we recognise that all people gain happiness and identity from
what they consider to be unique, we declare that all humans everywhere possess
immutable rights and values that transcend all political boundaries and
philosophies and are inherent and important in all religious faiths and creeds.
Jews, Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and those of other religions, along
of course with all people who do not identify with any faith, must enjoy the
same civil and legal rights and freedoms and be able to live in peace and
harmony and must pursue peace only through mutually respectful engagement and
dialogue.
We reject unequivocally all terrorism because at the heart of all religions is a
belief in the sanctity of the lives of the innocent. The indiscriminate nature
of terrorism, which has in recent years killed far more civilians and other
non-combatants than it has combatants, is un-Islamic, un-Judaic, un-Christian
and it is indeed incompatible with the true teachings of all faiths. Because of
its manifestly indiscriminate and therefore murderous nature, we condemn all
terrorism in all forms and in all countries regardless of any claimed religious
and political intentions.
We unequivocally reject, disown and condemn all terrorism committed in the name
of Islam, just as we reject and condemn all terrorism committed in the names of
other religions or causes. Terrorism is never a legitimate and honourable act of
war but is always a cowardly act of indiscriminate murder.
We reject as mistaken and spurious any assertions made by both Muslims and
non-Muslims that the world is currently locked in an inexorable struggle between
Islam and the West and we commit ourselves, through positive and mutually
respectful engagement and dialogue, to oppose any and all claims of clashes of
civilisations or the incompatibility of the values in various regions, states
and communities.
We support efforts by international agencies, governments and communities to
protect the world’s citizens from terrorism; we commit ourselves to assisting in
the de-radicalisation of those groups and individuals who might mistakenly
believe that their religion tolerates indiscriminate and wanton violence.
Whereas we do not overlook the real or perceived grievances that may serve as a
causative fuel for terrorist violence — and we call upon all national and local
governments to address those grievances with haste and resolve — we commit
ourselves to the non-violent resolution of those issues as well as to the
removal through education and dialogue of conspiracy theories that seem to
blinker some peoples’ worldviews.
We welcome the wave of popular and generally peaceful uprisings against tyranny
and oppression known as “the Arab Spring” and we recognise that it is a
rights-based, not religion-based, movement which is compatible with the
universal human rights and aspirations mentioned above.
We call on all international agencies and governments to support with clarity
and resolve the liberty-motivated Arabs, Berbers and other Muslims and we call
upon them to do so in a non-martial, impartial, transparent and
well-communicated manner that will enhance trust and establish bonds of good
will.
We the signatories to this declaration believe that the too-long-running
conflict between Israel and Palestine needs to be resolved urgently and with
scrupulous fairness.
We affirm the necessity urgently to resolve this conflict so as to provide both
the Palestinians with a sovereign pluralistic and representative state and the
Israelis with national and local security. If it is to be permanent and durable,
the peace agreement between Israel and Palestine must be fully and actively
supported and protected in a non-partisan fashion by the international community
and its terms must be equally beneficial to the citizens of both states who have
for so long feared and mistrusted each other.
We call for the promotion of human rights, fundamental freedoms, equality
between men and women, and the cardinal values of humanity such as
reconciliation, forgiveness, generosity and solidarity.
We declare that there is no difference between an Arab and a Jew, between a
Muslim and a Christian, between a Hindu and a Sikh, between a black person and a
white person, or between a man and a woman. All humans are equal and must be
treated with equal respect, dignity, compassion, equality, solidarity and
justice.
We unequivocally condemn anti-Semitism (including when sometimes it is
disingenuously clothed as anti-Zionism), Islamophobia (including when it is
sometimes disingenuously dressed up as patriotism) and all other forms of racism
and xenophobia.
We call on all Muslims and other minorities living in the West to respect all
the laws of the country in which they are living whether they possess the status
of citizen or resident.
We call on the Muslims, the governments and the elites of the West to promote
integration and citizenship, the only solution for peaceful co-existence and
cohesion.
We call on all governments to protect minorities against all hatred,
intimidation and violence, especially from ultra-nationalism or religious
intolerance.
We call for increasing aid for Africa, and other impoverished regions and
nations of the world, in order to improve their living conditions, provide
socio-economic and political stability, and realise the objectives of true
democracy.
We call on the financial powers to introduce more humanity in their economic
considerations. After both world wars, the stability of the European states is
crucial for the world.
We call on the world governments to increase efforts for the alleviation of
poverty, to combat illiteracy, proliferation of weapons, and threats to our
natural environment.
11,000 participants at the Peace for Humanity Conference support this London
Declaration for Global Peace & Resistance against Extremism.
Finally, we the signatories to this declaration call upon all people everywhere
to express their agreement with our beliefs, expectations and aspirations by
adding their own signatures to the declaration, which will be found online on
www.peaceforhumanity.co.uk & www.londondeclaration.com
Link:
https://www.minhaj.org/english/tid/14940/The-London-Declaration-for-Global-Peace--Resistance-against-Extremism-2011.htm
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