We must remember that Islam is not an enemy, and we have no war with Islam.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of distinguishing between Islam as a religion and any conflicts that may arise involving individuals or groups.
Reuven Rivlin's quote reminds us that Islam, as a faith and a community, should not be seen as an adversary. It highlights the necessity of understanding that conflicts often emerge from political or social circumstances rather than the beliefs themselves, urging us to adopt a perspective that fosters peace and harmony among different cultures and religions.
In practice
In a speech advocating for intercultural dialogue, this quote can be used to emphasize the importance of understanding diverse faiths.
The depth of this conflict, which is more than one hundred years old, requires us to find a way to communicate... so that the residents of the Middle East, Jews and Arabs alike, can live not as if they were forced to live together, but rather destined to live together.
The extremists are talking too loudly, and everyone is convinced that only he is on the right side. It’s not just Jews against Arabs. It’s the Orthodox versus those who don’t think they can keep all six hundred and thirteen commandments of the Bible. It’s rich people versus poor people. At some point, something came over Israel so that everyone has his own ideas—and everyone else is an enemy. It’s a dialogue among deaf people and it is getting more and more serious.
Attachment is the source of all suffering.
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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