• For the salvation of our Muslim brothers in Palestine who have lived for the last 60 or so years in refugee camps, who have to wait for hours at checkpoints to go to hospital, work or school, who risk being shot in their school playgrounds, whose homes are bulldozered, whose olive trees are burned and who have to live under the permanent shadow of guns; • For the salvation of our Muslim Turkish brothers who live under unbelievable repression and persecution in East Turkestan, who are not allowed to perform their religious observances, who are executed for no legitimate reason in a flagrant violation of international law, whose children are taken from them by force and whose whereabouts they never learn; • For the bloodshed in Iraq to stop, for the Iraqi people to attain peace and security and for Iraq to become a stable and strong country; • For the troubles facing Muslims in Afghanistan to be resolved and for them to attain a decent standard of living and well-being; • For the tension and disorder in Pakistan to come to an end; • For our Muslim brothers subjected to persecution in numerous countries because of their opinions and belief to be freed from that oppression; • For the whole Muslim world in Moro, Kosovo, Chechnya, Montenegro, Chad, Sudan, Algeria, Tunisia, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan to become wealthier, stronger and more prosperous; • For terror to come to an end and for people of all faiths and views to be able to live together in peace and brotherhood; • For arms races, conflict and fighting to come to an end, for poverty and want to come to an end, for justice to reign supreme, for everyone to be respected and for nobody to have to live in fear and tension, for everyone to be able to worship freely, no matter what their faith, race or language, for people to treat one another with love and for them to be able to express their ideas openly; • And for the Turkish-Islamic world to build the most magnificent, high-quality, modern and beautiful civilization of the 21st century and to achieve a position from which it can illuminate the whole world. |