Peace is a very precious commodity. It is being concealed by a number of other goals. All the great living religions‐revealed or non‐revealed are strongly committed to peace. This is even more true for the three Abrahamic faiths‐Judaism, Christianity and finally Islam. Unfortunately, the history of world events during last few decades attests to the fact that there exist more suspicions, distrusts, enmity, hatred and anger among the believers belonging to these three faiths than the others. The reason being the primary goals pertaining to political, socio‐cultural and economic pursued by the Christian‐dominated West are predominated by the goal of supremacy and domination and not of coexistence and cooperation. In pursuing these goals the Christian including the Jewish dominated West are pursuing the philosophy of moneytheism, liberalism, modernism and secularism. The Muslims living either in their own lands or in the West being the victims of their own despotic and autocratic rulers and their Western sympathisers are forced to take recourse to equally unjust methods branded as terrorism. Having realised the need for peaceful coexistence, this paper advocates for a thorough transformation as far as the basic goals are concerned. In order to achieve this, the existing academic, cultural and religious institutions and media need to undergo transformation based on an acceptable moral education on behaviours, norms and practices.
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Ataul Huq
Ataul Huq
Faculty of Economics, International Islamic University Malaysia, Gombak, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7174
Print ISSN: 0828-8666
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2005
Humanomics (2005) 21 (3): 29–48.
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Huq A (2005), "The Role of The Abrahamic Faiths in the Making of Peace Through Societal Transformation". Humanomics, Vol. 21 No. 3 pp. 29–48, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb018903
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