“Where it is the majority religion, Islam does not recognize religious freedom, at least not as we understand it. Islam is a different culture. This doesn't mean that it's an inferior culture, but it is a culture that has yet to connect with the positive sides of our modern Western culture: religious freedom, human rights and equal rights for women.” HumansMeanDoeDifferentCultureSidesReligiousRightsModernEqualMajorityIslamWesternHuman RightsInferiorsEqual RightsReligious FreedomDifferent CulturesWestern Culture Author:Walter Kasper
“Europe's experiment with multiculturalism, or the side-by-side existence of different cultures, has failed throughout the continent. Integration requires a minimum basis of shared values, that is, a culture of mutual tolerance and respect - in other words, what constitutes the heart of European culture.” HeartDifferentValuesCultureSidesExistenceEuropeBasesToleranceExperimentsMutualContinentsMinimumIntegrationMulticulturalismDifferent CulturesShared ValuesTolerance And Respect Author:Walter Kasper
“Christianity brought something new and revolutionary: freedom and unconditional dignity for each individual, regardless of his religion, culture or nationality. But the East and the West have parted ways since the Crusades.” WayCultureIndividualChristianityDignityWestEastRevolutionarySomething NewUnconditionalNationalityCrusades Author:Walter Kasper
“The end of World War I also marked the end of bourgeois culture. An inner emptiness developed that, in the 19th and 20th centuries, paved the way for two ideologies that dragged Europe and the world into an abyss and plunged it into a catastrophe.” WorldWayTwoWarEndsCultureCenturyEuropeIdeologyWar Of The WorldsEmptinessWorld War ICatastrophe20th CenturyAbyssBourgeois Author:Walter Kasper
