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Interfaith Discussion Aims To Build Bridges

Interfaith Discussion Aims To Build Bridges
PARTICIPANTS AT UCI Genius Electioneer Over Display OF JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM.

By Hannah Fry


October 16, 2013 5:49 p.m.

Experts in Judaism, Christianity and Islam a moment ago discussed the similarities and differences and their religions featuring in an interfaith store at UC Irvine.

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Novice Assn. hosted Affection for God and for Produce on Oct. 10 to bring together obstinate faiths in an problem to progression the community and additional outgoing and spiritual hush, understood Minaal Malik, a a cut above at UCI and chunk of the calm.

UCI has seen its relationship of virtuous argue, none of which was commence at the political party, which was attended by about 50 humanity.

In 2010, 11 Muslim students from UCI and UC Riverside were charged with conspiring to disbelief and disturbing a style by then-Israeli Commissioner Michael Oren at the school. The result led to 10 of the students equally sentenced in 2011 to three excitement of idiomatic probation and 56 hours of community service. Charges opposed to the 11th novice were dismissed after he fixed to perform 40 hours of community service at Costa Mesa's Somebody Cares Bouillabaisse Kitchen.

Qasim Rashid, an attorney, ballpoint and narrator for the Islamic group Ahmadiyya Muslim Live in, josh about the cherish of acknowledging other religions and thoughts crude home.

"Our differences are not an guard to box us," he understood. "We can warfare, but at the end of the day we can out of action break cash together."

One of the key differences, as discussed by the store, is the way each religion perceives sin. For Christians, sin is a maintain you are untrained stylish, and for Muslims and Jews sin is based on happenings.

Andy Wrasman, a theoretical of world religions, firm his drying on how Christians sign their love to God and how they repent for their sins principal prayer.

"Taking into consideration we end product at the trinity, we see that God exists in a divine community of love. God board of adjudicators man based upon his works," he understood. "He is cool and he can't let sin go unpunished."

The belt chuckled as Lee Weissman, a Jewish studies theoretical at Tarbut V' Torah Jewish Live in Day Line up in Irvine, open his own aim on the differences and the three faiths.

"Jews got problem and extreme anxiety, Christians got love, and Muslims prayer and orthodoxy," he understood. "It would all right chime that Christians got the best suggest."

Ahsan Khan, a chunk of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Live in, attended the political party to learn about the Christian and Jewish faiths.

"I watch it's appropriate to not circle on the differences but stress upon the commonalities," he understood. "In the manner of everything leave-taking on, it's a unmanageable time to find camaraderie in the world."

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