"A joint message from Spain and Turkey
published: Thursday | February 16, 2006
Martin Henry
THIS PAGE, last Friday [Feb 10], carried a most interesting joint message from Spain and Turkey. The message, 'A call for respect and calm', was released in light of the rolling international protests by Muslims over the publication of cartoon caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in the 'Christian' West in the name of free speech.
What, to me, was most striking about this message was its revelation of the launching last year of the Alliance of Civilisations Project over which Spain and Turkey are presiding.
No two countries could be more representative of the historical square-off between Christianity and Islam. At the height of Spanish imperial power, the Spanish monarch and ruler of much of the rest of Europe, Charles V, also held the title of Holy Roman emperor which made him the chief defender of the Roman Catholic faith and punisher of heretics."
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