Does world peace depend on better understanding between religions?

# More than 135 Muslim scholars (both Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims) have written to Pope Benedict and other Christian leaders urging greater understanding between their religions.

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# The letter aims at finding common ground between the world's major faiths to go beyond polite dialogue as 'the very survival of the world itself is perhaps at stake'.

# The strained relations between Muslims and Christians owing to al-Qaeda's attack around the world and as the United States and other Western countries intervened in Iraq and Afghanistan has made the world an unstable place.

# Pope Benedict sparked Muslim protests last year with a speech hinting Islam was violent and irrational.