ISLAMABAD: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah’s bold handshake with a Jewish participant at the Madrid’s Interfaith Conference was a turning point in the ongoing interfaith dialogue in the world, said Pakistan Observer’s Editor in Chief Zahid Malik here.
Speaking at the Leadership Conference on Dialogue for Peaceful Coexistence here on Friday, Malik described the handshake as an historic event, saying that it was a bold message to the followers of Judaism and Christianity that Muslims are ready to go the extra mile to extend the hand of friendship to the followers of Judaism and Christianity. “It was a Muslim world’s handshake with the Jewish world,” he said.
Commending Saudi Arabia’s role toward promoting interfaith harmony, Malik said that it was now incumbent on the Christian and Jewish leadership to come forward with a similar bold initiative. Malik also touched on the various initiatives taken by Pakistan and President Pervez Musharraf on the issues of extremism.
