Internationella fredsdagen!
I samband med den internationella fredsdagen vill Svenska Muslimer för Fred och Rättvisa dela med sig en kort film som The European Peacemakers Network framställt. Svenska muslimer för Fred och rättvisa en del av den Europeiska fredsrörelsen. Detta är ett projekt som startade från Sverige och som tillsammans med vårt nätverk i Europa kunde bli av. Videon visades upp av Svenska UD på en fredskonferens på världskulturmuséet i Stockholm på internationella fredsdagen 21 september! Konferensen annordnades av Anna Linds stiftelse och UN Alliance of civilization.
På fredskonferensen höll bland annat Jan Henningsson (UD) ett tal om fredsagenterna och muslimska fredsrörelsens betydande arbete.
”Nevertheless, Islam remains a global resource for peace-building. Here in Sweden, a group of young Muslim intellectuals, are showing us how powerful is this resource, the moving force behind the words al-salamu ’alaykum.
The Muslim Peace Agents, as they call themselves, now count more than one hundred certified – and committed! – members, most of whom received their official recognition last December, at the hands of Sweden’s Minister for Trade, H E Mme Ewa Björling.
The Muslim Peace Agents, inspired by their charismatic leader Yasin Ahmed, have found a way – their own way – to convey the message of peace, to their own contemporaries as well as to the Swedish majority population. Indeed, this commitment to the cause of peace, which they share with many young Christians in this country, has become a very eloquent way of proving Islam as a viable religion in Sweden of today.
Drawing upon their own spiritual sources, they have infused the traditional Swedish model for non-formal adult education (folkbildning) with new life. Not only have they launched and completed a successful educational project; they have also founded an NGO – Swedish Muslims for Peace and Justice – and they now continue their educational work through their own Study Association, dedicated to the great Arab-Andalousian thinker, Ibn Rushd from Cordoba.”