Navid Kermani: A declaration of war on the Islamic state – THE WORLD

On the places in the Frankfurt St. Paul’s Church is located at the Peace Prize a list of who asks the guests as they enter the guests of honor to rise from their seats. This is not just politeness or deference, but a residual amount of ecclesiastical forms, secularized liturgy, so that you can literally use the organ expect that towers over the lectern. Instead, however strange silence that seems almost comical, until finally the first speaker begins with the usual greeting litany.

It was to be expected that in this year religious would go, or rather theological and religious history, is still honored with Navid Kermani, a Muslim with Persian roots, a prominent advocate of religious tolerance. Kermani is a writer and essayist who demands not only respect and respect for other religious traditions and promotes, but inner fascination, indeed affection – a way of thinking (and feeling) that appears downright outlandish progressive in the heated religious conflicts of the present. It was not expected that Kermani would actually transform the award ceremony in a church service.

The true martyr

It was a funeral service. Kermani told examples of the tragic fate of the Order of Mar Musa and the Catholic community of Qaryatein who are victims of the “Islamic State” has become in recent years. Even in his latest book is a chapter dedicated to the Italian Jesuit and Founder Paolo Dall’Oglio, who has devoted himself to Islam since the eighties of the encounter. An anachronistic acting oasis of religious tolerance and the exchange praised Kermani in glowing terms and with no fear of the pathetic register.

Father Jacques, the leaders of the community asked, he present as Christian saints of our time, ready for martyrdom for a paradoxical faith that advocates love to another religion. In love you could ever be in the other, even in a different religion, Kermani, who has just written itself a declaration of love for Christianity. Even love must however always know the self-doubt: “To what extent this is true of Islam today who do not quarrel as a Muslim with him, does not doubt him, not questioned him critically, who does not love Islam!.”

A Horror Panorama

The Islam-loving Father Jaques was meantime prisoners of IS and still have to fear for the lives of his parishioners. To his Vita around Kermani told the global decline of the Islamic culture: Fewer tradition is the problem of Islam “but rather the almost complete break with this tradition, the loss of cultural memory”. Expressly the Orientalist Kermani was referring to the suppression of Sufism, Islamic mysticism, but also once the sophisticated Koranic interpretation. Their loss level is the instrumentalization of the Koran as justification for cruel terror. . His horror Panorama culminated in a passionate appeal for an intervention in Syria

“May peace laureates call for war”, he asked himself: “I’m calling I would merely point out that there is a war not a war on -. and that we too, as its nearest neighbors, must conduct ourselves to possibly military, yes, but above all much more resolute than before diplomatically as well as civil society. ” That was far from everything Sonntagsrednertum, especially Kermani also multiply the allied with the West Saudi Arabia called as supporters of Islamist violence by name.

prayers against Snuff video

“Is there any hope?” This desperate question was the other theme. She seemed in view of the eschatological darkened world situation by itself to answer, but it is characteristic of religious thought, to preserve the hope of salvation precisely in the Apocalypse, yes right there.

So it was a surprise, almost a shock, but at the same time absolutely consistently ask for prayer from Kermani, the audience at the end,” for Father Paolo and the two hundred Christians kidnapped by Qaryatein “. Even someone who is not religious, but should be with his wishes at the abductees and ‘What prayers are for other than requests which are addressed to God? ” Then he asked even in gestures of a priest about to rise, “so we challenged on the snuff videos of terrorists a picture of our brotherhood.” By this time many listeners had to hide her tears. It was a moment of maximum emotion as likely to have never seen in its recent history him the Peace Prize. At the same time a moment of deep sadness, but also of hope. Navid Kermani has us demanded a moment of emotion, all of us taking in the duty.

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