Berri Urges Islamic Unity, raises concern over Against Turning Differences into Division and Strife

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NNA - Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri stressed that the greatest danger facing the Islamic world today was not the diversity of religious interpretations, but the transformation of differences into division, sectarianism and conflict. The report also notes that In a message to the International Islamic Unity Conference in Tehran, delivered on his behalf by Tyre and Jabal Amel Mufti Sheikh Hassan Abdullah, Berri stated Islamic unity should not seek to eliminate differences. “The unity we need is to disagree without fighting, to be diverse without becoming divided, and to seek the common ground that makes our diversity a source of strength rather than a pretext for division,” he stated. Berri raised concerns about against allowing religious differences to become sectarian fanaticism, politics to turn into sedition or religion to become an instrument of conflict. He stated scholars and intellectuals had a responsibility to open channels of dialogue rather than deepen divisions, calling for a renewed approach to unity that safeguards human dignity and the sanctity of life, recognizes disagreement as a right and dialogue as a duty, and rejects excommunication and sectarian strife. Berri also invoked the legacy of Imam Musa Al-Sadr, saying he viewed Islamic denominations as sources of enrichment rather than “trenches of conflict” and worked to build bridges among communities. Addressing regional developments, Berri stated Palestine and Jerusalem represented a test of the conscience of the Islamic world, while referring to the conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon and the US-Israeli confro

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