Nobel Peace Prize Creates Important Moment For Interfaith Unity

[cbayer]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/10/nobel-malala-satyarthi-hindu-muslim_n_5966388.html

Huffington Post | By Carol Kuruvilla

Posted: 10/10/2014 2:02 pm EDT Updated: 10/11/2014 12:59 am EDT


Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi | Getty

History pits them against each other, but a fiery passion united this year’s interfaith Nobel Peace Prize winners around the common goal of children’s rights.

Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi -- a Muslim education activist from Pakistan and a Hindu child slavery abolitionist from India -- are joint recipients of the 113-year-old honor, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on Friday.

The judges praised the unlikely pair for their “struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.”

The announcement came at a time when tensions are escalating between Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan, particularly along the disputed, mainly Muslim border region of Kashmir. It is the worst fighting between the two rival countries in more than a decade, Reuters reports.

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[skepticscott]

1. Except that religion has nothing to do

with the activities that won them the Nobel Prize, nor does it have anything to do with the conflict between India and Pakistan. That is a political conflict and entirely about power, and not religion. Or so you and your cohorts here argue vehemently, every time anyone tries to attach any responsibility to religion or religious beliefs for precipitating violence, conflict and war throughout history. You've maintained incessantly and against all reason that religion has nothing to do with ISIS, since they aren't "real" Muslims, and they are just using religion as an excuse, blah, blah blah.

But now, apparently, when it suits your warm fuzzyish, Interfaithy agenda, it's all about religion.

[AtheistCrusader]

2. Convenient, innit?

[skepticscott]

5. Yes, and another example

of a thread that the OP is afraid to engage on, because it didn't get the fawning kudos that she expected it to. Anything but praise and agreement can't be dealt with.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. Nothing says "interfaith moment" like shooting a school girl in the head because god. nt.

[rug]

4. Who remains a practicing Muslim.

[trotsky]

6. Isn't the fact that this is remarkable and wonderful...

a testament to how f'ed up their religions were to start?

It's like when someone criticizes Islam and is attacked as a "racist" or "bigot" by being told that there are peaceful Muslims risking their lives to fight for free speech and equal rights - doesn't the fact that those folks are RISKING THEIR LIVES lobbying for these basic principles kind of prove the point??

Fuck it. Atheists who criticize religion are wrong and evil. That's the meme you're sticking with it. Got it.

[rug]

7. No.

Not to wrinkle your crying rag.

[mmonk]

8. When I first saw this, my thoughts

turned to Gandhi and what he had wanted for India instead of the division that occurred .

[cbayer]

9. I have heard several analysts discuss whether the committee chose these

two specifically to promote a Hindu/Muslim interfaith alliance.

Bringing some peace and unity between India and Pakistan would be a good thing.

[mmonk]

10. Yes, a very good thing.