Can all the diff religious leader sit down & sort out the problems,& find a way out to stop terrorism?

Answer 1

The problem doesn't lie in the religions,unfortunately its used by a hand full of people in each society to achieve their own personal goals of gaining power and running the world according to their rules. Religion is just a means they use to justify their ends.

Answer 2

The Pope and other religious leaders have called for peace and an end to terrorism more times than any of us can count.

At some point it's up to the politicians -- and to the terrorists themselves.

Answer 3

Not without changing the basic tenets of their religions. Whether they act on them or not, the various monotheistic religions have natural tendencies to attack each other. It's built into the core of their religions.

Some of the moderate "sheep" don't realize that they are supporting a war machine. They concentrate on the "love and peace in their heart", and whatever other nonsense their preacher tells them to have. But all they're doing is choosing a side, in an insane war that has been going on for centuries.

I guarantee you, put a fundamentalist Christian in the White House. (Bush is debatable, but imagine Pat Robertson, for example) If we really let the fundies do what they want to do, we would be at war with 75% of the world right now.

And of course, the muslims are ALREADY at war with 75% of the world, and they're not changing either.

Answer 4

Unfortunately n. Some faith are "exclusive" to a certain people and thus others feel animosity towards these faiths. The "inclusive" faiths are the ones who tend to be very peaceful, open, & forgiving. Without pointing any fingers, the fundamentalists ideals in all faiths are the most dangerous because you are dealing with people who do not operate in a rational sense. Fundamentalist of any faith should be monitored for potential dangerous threat.

Answer 5

No,

But the Muslim religious leaders could.

The Pope has already held out the olive branch of peace to the Muslims.

I pray that they can and do.

Peace!

Answer 6

Terorism is not about religion, it's a political issue. almost all of muslim religios leaders condemn teroism in any shape but there are some political and historical conflicts that boost terorism, we have to deal with them first, we have to listen and see what's the problem behind terorism, we have to deal with reasons not results,
As we see, war and accupation just boost terorism, also insults and prejudice too.

Answer 7

But I wonder if religion is just an excuse for war. Killing seems to be hardwired into the brains of some men, probably the ones who never evolved completely away from the homo erectus mindset to fight, fight, kill, kill. For some people football and hockey just aren't enough to vent this excess of testosterone. There has to be blood and death. If not religion, wouldn't there be another excuse for sanctioned murder?

Answer 8

That would be wonderful but it won't happen until the Islamic world changes the parts of the Koran which are bent on killing Christians and Jews. And when Sharia law is imposed this so called "theocracy" is against free-will to think or live according to one's convictions.

Answer 9

It sure sounds good. The problem with that is that the leaders of Al-Quaeda and similar groups think that they have been commanded by their god to kill everybody who doesn't agree with them. That doesn't leave a whole lot of room for compromise across the bargaining table...

Answer 10

No. Terrorism is not about religion. It is about obsession, mental instability, and power.