We have a great programme on UK TV called "Secret Millionaire". Each week a different millionaire goes "undercover" to a poor or disadvantaged area (or back to their roots) and works among the people for a week before deciding who to give money to and assist.

This week the man was a very successful leisure industry boss. He was a Pakistani who had moved to the UK aged 8, speaking no English. He had been married to an English woman for 20 years and remained a muslim. He had learned the language and built up his business from scratch.

He went back to the area of Leeds where many of his Asian countrymen live. He spent time with them and after a few days was horrified to discover that there was NOBODY he wanted to help! The muslim community did NOT want to integrate with the English in any way and had not adapted to living in another country. In a radio interview, he had callers saying he had betrayed his faith by marrying an English woman, and that he could not be considered a proper muslim because any woman from the West was immoral. They taunted him for his "Englishness" and kept asking "did you sleep with her before marriage".

He was left sad and bewildered at how fundementalist immigrants had become in the UK. He eventually found three people he could help (2 of which were not from his own background).

Integration and tolerance WORKS BOTH WAYS!

I think the article kafesteki kus posted about churches in Italy allowing muslims to pray there, although there's no mention of Italian mosques allowing christians in is a great example of exactly the same issue. Muslims making demands and offering NOTHING in return!

You may be correct, but in that case this is NOT about DIALOGUE (more like appeasement)!

I don't believe there will EVER be peaceful coexistance between people of different religions, for one simple reason.

While its easy for people to say "we all have one God", most deity religions follow one prophet (Jesus, Mohammad ...and as we have been talking about Mormon's lately, Joseph, a boy from the USA!!!). Each prophet claims that HE received his message from God and that HIS teachings are only way God wants us to worship him.

This means only ONE can be right and all the others are following a false prophet who had a few hallucinations and was deluded into thinking he was "chosen"

Religious people will always argue about their faith (which in itself makes a mockery of faith)!! Even if the whole world were one religion, they would still argue about the different sub-sections of that religion.

What a wonderful, peaceful world those false prophets gave us!!! (I am not mocking any religion here - but whatever your religion, you have to agree that the other's are "false prophets"

I don't completely agree with you Aenigma, it is possible for people to have their own faith and at the same time have the kind of attitude in which they would see other people as human beings. Religion is a subject to wide interpretation, so if they interpret their faith in a tolerant way, they will become more tolerant, if they don't, they will keep acting like predators towards each other.

Actually, I don't think that it's dialogue that's going to guarantee a peaceful coexistence, but a couple of bright people who will redefine their faith on a mass scale... and will lead to a movement of brainwashing people to be more tolerant. It's impossible to have a "dialogue" with an average Mary that has had years of pumping information into her had by the whole gang.