Wednesday, May 7, 2008

The EU, religion and climate change

European Commission President Barroso, Slovenian Prime Minister and current President of the European Council Jansa and president of the European Parliament Poettering (in other words, all the most senior EU leaders) convened a meeting on May 5 in Brussels of Christian, Jewish and Muslim religious leaders to - why didn't anyone think of this before? - discuss climate change and reconciliation. Barroso said of these leaders: "Thanks to their moral authority, their outreach and their structure, they are well placed to make a valuable contribution, mobilising our societies for a sustainable future."

The one Muslim representative named in the euobserver.com article (see here, thanks to Brussels Journal) was Grand Mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina Mustafa Ceric. He is here and here identified as prominent in the global Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood's credo is: "Allah is our goal, the prophet our model, the Koran our constitution, the Jihad our path and death for the sake of Allah the loftiest of our wishes." Nothing like tacking sustainable development on the end of that list!

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