King`s interview with Kuwaiti newspaper `Al-Siyassah` 2 Jeddah/Kuwait

The following is the full text of the Interview:

Q- Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques: Is Interfaith dialogue
conference recently held at the United Nations went as planned?

A- The World is boiling around us, but still the media is
active in promoting and highlighting various negative (news) stories
at the expense of other positive stories with regard to the
convergence of civilizations. Although this is the core issue of the
entire world nations which supposed to have rational deliberations,
fully taking into account its (dialogue's) sensitivities and its role
in illuminating the way people march ahead, it does not need usage of
extensive media focus to put off the dialogue's glitter. In decades
ago, conflicts between the followers of religions used to fuel wars
and hostilities between the nations."

Saudi Arabia's association with Islam is inseparable- of course - It
is the cradle of Islam as well as the place of the Two Holy Mosques
in Makkah and Madinah. Thus, the issue of dialogue among followers of
different religions had occupied my mind for long, I do see
disagreement and conflict (on dialogue) in countries that we have
common interests with, I had told them in that conference "let us
practice relations through shared points of views, All of us want
peace, stability, security and safety of our peoples and nations.
Moreover, We have much more in common to unite us and less to divide
us, and I had told them let us leave what we disagree on to Allah and
to the day of reckoning, Let us be civilized in hearing each other
point of views.


Our Prophet Mohammed (Peace and blessing of Allah be upon him)
spread Islam with beautiful preaching and logic, His message which
calls for peace, had convinced a great number of people to believe
him and to believe in what he was sent for.


I am pleased for the positive responses what I had put forward,
resulting in the participation of the conference's deliberations by
all United Nations delegations. "These reflected the interest for
better relations between the world's countries and peoples, away from
religious wars - often - traded by those who mix them with political
agendas based on profiting rather than reforming and acts of
righteousness.


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