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Copyright © 2008 All Rights Reserved. Al-Hakim Foundation.
Al-Hakim Foundation always promoting intellectual excellence, religious dialogue
and cultural understanding
and cultural understanding
The Foundation is based upon moderation and encourages dialogue among revealed religions, religious schools and doctrines,
and the mobilization of society against discrimination, chauvinism and factionalism and reinforcing complementaries and
encouraging coordination among international institutions that share similar activities in the promotion of education, humanitarian
and intercultural activities, and enhancement of the role of civil society.
Al-Hakim foundation held many conferences and meetings inside and outside Iraq to encourage partnership between Iraqis and
eradication the sectarian violence and bringing peace to Iraq. One of the important conferences was hold in New York on June
2007 under theme (Iraq for all Iraqis)Amid deepening challenges in Iraq, Al-Hakim foundation, Religions for Peace, and New York
University Center for Dialogues: Islamic World-U.S. West brought together the senior Iraqi religious and other civil society leaders
at the United Nations on June 2007 to help forge global partnerships to rebuild Iraqi national consensus and more than eighty
participants gathered at the United Nations for the dialogue, including Iraqi. Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebar and Ambassadors Dr.
Hamid al-Bayati and Feisal al-Istrabadi, respectively Iraq's Permanent and Deputy Permanent Representatives to the United
Nations. They all gathered at the United Nations to help forge global partnerships to rebuild Iraqi national consensus. The two-day
Iraq for all Iraqis conference, which concluded on June 12, aimed to advance dialogue and cooperation among the feuding social
and religious factions in the country. Another goal was to rebuild bridges and advance cooperation between these Iraqi leaders
and United Nations' institutions, U.S. nongovernmental organizations, and scholars.
Prominent Sunni and Shi'ite religious leaders and scholars gathered in New York, they were trying to convey the urgency of finding
common ground and understanding amid the increasing violence in Iraq. They agree that among major threats to the deteriorating
security situation in the country is Al-Qaeda's radicalization of Islam:Many conference participants shared the concerns. Among
them were Ammar Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim, a Shi'ite theologian and secretary-general of the Al-Hakim Foundation, and Sheikh Majid
al-Hafid, who is a Sunni scholar from Al-Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq and the imam of a historic mosque. And shiakh Khalid
Almulla from Basra Despite their sectarian differences, all of them are worried by the threat of growing religious extremism in Iraq.
William Vendley, who is the secretary-general of the U.S.-based nongovernmental organization Religions for Peace, believe that
the worsening situation in Iraq is a result of a continuous attempt to subvert religion, any religion, for nonreligious purposes. Grand
Ayatollah Muhammad Sa'id al-Hakim identifies several causes for flourishing religious extremism. Among them is that religious
extremists claim legitimacy, claim to be the proper interpreters of sacred texts.
Often, he says they act in alliance with unscrupulous politicians who are using religious extremism to advance their own agendas
and manipulate the public. Another major factor for the success of religious extremists in many parts of world is that half of the
world's population lives in poverty.
Muhammad Husayn al-Hakim is an Islamic scholar and lecturer at a theological institute in Al-Najaf. His father is Grand Ayatollah
Muhammad Sa'id al-Hakim, one of the most senior religious figures in Iraq. Muhammad Husayn al-Hakim says holding this
reconciliation conference in New York, and particularly on the UN grounds, draws more international attention to Iraq's domestic
problems. & quot; It is an essential prerequisite in any reconciliation process for people to sit together, & quot; aA-Hakim said.
" Obviously, we've done that before.
And in a place like this, it is also to give a sense that Iraqis share the same goals. The situation today in Iraq is not exclusive to
Iraqis. We all know that there is a international row within Iraq. And sending a message to the international community is important
for making a change on the ground. The Al-Hakim family is an important element in Al-Najaf, and Muhammad Husayn al-Hakim is
considered a voice of moderation and coexistence, despite a bomb attack on his father's house and occasional death threats.
Many of the participants in the New York conference have been meeting since May 2003 in a series of similar dialogues organized
by Al-Hakim foundation and Religions for Peace. The goal is to create an inter religious council in Iraq. Previous meetings took
place in Iraq, Japan, Jordan, England, Norway, and South Korea.
List of Iraqi Speakers
Agenda
Iraq for all Iraqis Statement of the Organizers on behalf of the Conference
Press release
and the mobilization of society against discrimination, chauvinism and factionalism and reinforcing complementaries and
encouraging coordination among international institutions that share similar activities in the promotion of education, humanitarian
and intercultural activities, and enhancement of the role of civil society.
Al-Hakim foundation held many conferences and meetings inside and outside Iraq to encourage partnership between Iraqis and
eradication the sectarian violence and bringing peace to Iraq. One of the important conferences was hold in New York on June
2007 under theme (Iraq for all Iraqis)Amid deepening challenges in Iraq, Al-Hakim foundation, Religions for Peace, and New York
University Center for Dialogues: Islamic World-U.S. West brought together the senior Iraqi religious and other civil society leaders
at the United Nations on June 2007 to help forge global partnerships to rebuild Iraqi national consensus and more than eighty
participants gathered at the United Nations for the dialogue, including Iraqi. Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebar and Ambassadors Dr.
Hamid al-Bayati and Feisal al-Istrabadi, respectively Iraq's Permanent and Deputy Permanent Representatives to the United
Nations. They all gathered at the United Nations to help forge global partnerships to rebuild Iraqi national consensus. The two-day
Iraq for all Iraqis conference, which concluded on June 12, aimed to advance dialogue and cooperation among the feuding social
and religious factions in the country. Another goal was to rebuild bridges and advance cooperation between these Iraqi leaders
and United Nations' institutions, U.S. nongovernmental organizations, and scholars.
Prominent Sunni and Shi'ite religious leaders and scholars gathered in New York, they were trying to convey the urgency of finding
common ground and understanding amid the increasing violence in Iraq. They agree that among major threats to the deteriorating
security situation in the country is Al-Qaeda's radicalization of Islam:Many conference participants shared the concerns. Among
them were Ammar Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim, a Shi'ite theologian and secretary-general of the Al-Hakim Foundation, and Sheikh Majid
al-Hafid, who is a Sunni scholar from Al-Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq and the imam of a historic mosque. And shiakh Khalid
Almulla from Basra Despite their sectarian differences, all of them are worried by the threat of growing religious extremism in Iraq.
William Vendley, who is the secretary-general of the U.S.-based nongovernmental organization Religions for Peace, believe that
the worsening situation in Iraq is a result of a continuous attempt to subvert religion, any religion, for nonreligious purposes. Grand
Ayatollah Muhammad Sa'id al-Hakim identifies several causes for flourishing religious extremism. Among them is that religious
extremists claim legitimacy, claim to be the proper interpreters of sacred texts.
Often, he says they act in alliance with unscrupulous politicians who are using religious extremism to advance their own agendas
and manipulate the public. Another major factor for the success of religious extremists in many parts of world is that half of the
world's population lives in poverty.
Muhammad Husayn al-Hakim is an Islamic scholar and lecturer at a theological institute in Al-Najaf. His father is Grand Ayatollah
Muhammad Sa'id al-Hakim, one of the most senior religious figures in Iraq. Muhammad Husayn al-Hakim says holding this
reconciliation conference in New York, and particularly on the UN grounds, draws more international attention to Iraq's domestic
problems. & quot; It is an essential prerequisite in any reconciliation process for people to sit together, & quot; aA-Hakim said.
" Obviously, we've done that before.
And in a place like this, it is also to give a sense that Iraqis share the same goals. The situation today in Iraq is not exclusive to
Iraqis. We all know that there is a international row within Iraq. And sending a message to the international community is important
for making a change on the ground. The Al-Hakim family is an important element in Al-Najaf, and Muhammad Husayn al-Hakim is
considered a voice of moderation and coexistence, despite a bomb attack on his father's house and occasional death threats.
Many of the participants in the New York conference have been meeting since May 2003 in a series of similar dialogues organized
by Al-Hakim foundation and Religions for Peace. The goal is to create an inter religious council in Iraq. Previous meetings took
place in Iraq, Japan, Jordan, England, Norway, and South Korea.
List of Iraqi Speakers
Agenda
Iraq for all Iraqis Statement of the Organizers on behalf of the Conference
Press release
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