All the better for this conversation, of course, if
Muslim dialogue partners bring to the table a deep memory of Muslim philosophers such as al - Farabi, Averroës and Avicenna, each of whom attended in various ways to the profound connection between faith and reason, the central point of the pope's lecture.
To return to the recent war in Lebanon: once a
Muslim appreciates that a Christian
partner in
dialogue really cares about
Muslim civilians who suffered in the attacks on their homes and on the infrastructure of civilian life, that
Muslim can also appreciate the Christian's concern about Hezbollah's use of Katyusha rockets to target Israeli and Palestinian civilians in Haifa and Nazareth and other places in Galilee;