| Interfaith Dialogue Presents Opportunities |
 Let us establish business partnerships and support joint projects between faith-based organizations.
Exploring what the Abrahamic faiths have in common was the theme of an interfaith dialogue held in Atlanta’s All Saints Episcopal Church on the sidelines of the recent US-Saudi Business Opportunities Forum. The Saudi Committee of International Trade (CIT) and the Saudi-US Trade Group organized the event.
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| The Muslim World is Out of Control. And that’s a Good Thing. |
 The control of ruthless dictators has declined markedly in less than a single year. Two brutal despots, Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia, are gone for good, and while it will take time for the citizens of these two states to clean up the mess left them by their erstwhile leaders, they are moving in the right direction.
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| Unfavorable Views of Both Jews and Muslims Increase in Europe |
 Ethnocentric attitudes are on the rise in Europe. Growing numbers of people in several major European countries say they have an unfavorable opinion of Jews, and opinions of Muslims, which were already substantially more negative, have also grown increasingly so compared with several years ago. |
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Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday appointed Joseph Coutts as archbishop of Karachi, the Pakistani sprawling southern port city where Christians have been the target of religious violence, the Vatican announced.
In my seven year stay in Cambridge University while I was completing my PhD there I was involved in forums for dialogue between different disciplines between the humanities and social sciences. 
Community leaders have been urged to do more to educate their compatriots on the customs, tradition and culture of Qatar so that they can better interact with the culture of the host country. 
The level of anti-Muslim prejudice — 43 percent of Americans admitted feeling at least “a little” — is more than twice as high as Americans' reported feelings toward Buddhists, Christians and Jews. 
The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, warned of the consequences of the Israeli extremists' storming of Al-Aqsa mosque and stressed that the attack on the Al-Aqsa Mosque forms a blatant assault on the sanctities of Muslims. 
The Vatican said banks should look at the rules of Islamic finance to restore confidence amongst their clients at a time of global economic crisis. 
Humanity at its best has few manifestations. The Gaza crisis has provided the opportunity for people of human decency to prove they are faithful to human brotherhood, fraternity and solidarity.
