Ethnicity, Religions and Harmony: Exploring Christian Muslim Relations in Iraq Today

Associate Professor Nasir Butrous is a Chaldean Catholic and a native of the city of Mosul (Biblical Nineveh) in Iraq. He is the Associate Professor of Management at the Australian Catholic University-Faculty of Law and Business in Melbourne. Nasir was previously a member of the Commission for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relationships in the Archdiocese of Brisbane. He has regularly spoken on his perspective on Islam from his lived experience of Catholic-Muslim relations both in Iraq and in Australia.

In his presentation, Prof. Nasir Butrous addressed Iraq’s political, cultural, social, economical and Administrational background, the Christian and Muslim communities of Iraq. There is an excellent background explaining the balance of Sunni and Shi’ite and the Kurds and how the automomous province was originally created. He then went on to examine the current situation in Iraq and its background. The rise and nature of the “Islamic State” was discussed and the conclusion examined Ethnicity, Religions and Harmony. Dialogue is explored as a keystone to harmony and understanding. Prof. Nasir also gives accounts of how and why multiculturalism works in Australia.

 

 

Professor Desmond Cahill OAM – Chair, Religions for Peace Victoria / Australia gave a vote of thanks afterwards.

 

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