Dr Marilyn Wyatt, wife of the US ambassador to Pakistan, participated in a women’s interfaith dialogue today at a local shrine.
Participants included over 40 women religious leaders from various faiths, as well as teachers, and civil society activists. Dr Amineh Ahmed Hoti, an anthropologist, author, and noted women’s rights activist, moderated the dialogue, says a press release issued here by US Embassy.
During the dialogue, the participants discussed the role of faith in daily life, the importance of interfaith cooperation, and the important role women play in promoting religious tolerance and interfaith harmony.
Dr Wyatt noted that women especially understood the importance of tolerance, dialogue, and service to humanity.
“Here in Pakistan, where there is such a diversity of peoples and faiths, you have long experience in promoting religious tolerance and fighting those negative forces that want to judge and punish faiths that are different from their own,” Dr Wyatt said.
Dear Dr Wyatt, there was great religious tolerance amongst the people of Pakistan until the late 70s. Then your proposed NEW WORLD ORDER began bringing the change in our psyche! Our young were indoctrinated by Wahabi-Salafist philosophy to crush anyone who thought otherwise. Shias were targeted by your sponsored Jhangivi group and they in turn retailiated! Did you not know inter-marriages between Sunni-Shia was common in Pakhtunkhwa Province, until we got involved with your war in Afghanistan to save Islam from the ''Red Devil'' with courtesy of a Wahabist dictator. At the same time you were seeking vengence with help of your Arab proteges against Iran for the 1978 Embassy debacle. Tolerence can only return when we return to the tolerant philosophy of Islamic jursiprudence of Abu Hanifa and shun Wahabism!!
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