The common word forms a Muslim-Christian bond

Different parts of my extended family are atheist, Christian and Muslim, with my ethnic background being somewhat more complicated. But I am not particularly enthralled with the “interfaith movement; it served to establish good relations between small numbers of people, but they have always been held back in two ways.

The first is that religious authorities never took the same route as the interfaith community in terms of dialogue. The second is linked to the first. Often, due to the absence of high-level authorities in interfaith discussions, the groups come to a hodge-podge of well-meaning but ultimately meaningless positions of “multi-faith eclecticism. The essential message: we are all the same, and there are no real differences between us.

The opening of the article. The full text is at Daily News Egypt.