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The
Penang Global Ethic Project Launch
OFFICIAL
LAUNCH
World Religions - Universal
Peace - Global Ethic
10.00am, Tuesday, 7 February 2006
....at
USM ABN-AMRO Arts & Cultutal Centre, Lebuh Pantai
Speeches
TEKS
UCAPAN NAIB CANSELOR USM SEMPENA PELANCARAN
THE PENANG GLOBAL ETHIC PROJECT & PAMERAN
"WORLD RELIGIONS - UNIVERSAL PEACE - GLOBAL ETHIC"
7
Februari 2006,
Pusat Kesenian dan Kebudayaan USM ABN AMRO,
Jam 10.00 pagi
 Bismillahirrahmanirrahim
Assalamauataikum
Warahmatullah
Hiwabarakatuh
Salam
Sejahtera dan Selamat Petang
Tuan
Yang Terutama Tun Dato' Seri Utama (Dr) Haji Abdul Rahman bin
Haji Abbas
Yang DiPertua Negeri Pulau Pinang
Dan
Toh Puan Majimur Sharif
Yang
Amat Berhormat Tan Seri Dr Koh Tsu Koon Ketua Menteri
Puiau Pinang dan Datin Seri
Konsolat
General
Mr.Peter
Schier
Representative Konrad Foundation
Y.Bhg
Dato' Anuar Fazal Presiden
Malaysia Interfaith Network
Merangkap
Pengerusi Jawatankuasa The Penang Global Ethic Project
En
Hasnul Jamal Saidon Pengarah
Muzium dan Galeri Seni USM
Tetamu-Tetamu
Kehormat
Pegawai-pegawai
Utama Universiti, Para Pensyarah, Para Pelajar, Tuan-Tuan dan
Puan-Puan Sekelian.
Pertama
sekali, ingin saya memanjatkan kesyukuran ke hadrat Allah Subhanahu
wata'ala kerana dengan limpah kurniaNya sekati lagi dapat kita
berkumpul dimajiis perasmian The Penang Global Ethic Project serta
Pameran "World Religions - Universal Peace - Global Ethic"
pada pagi ini.
Majlis
ini juga dengan hormat dan takzimnya rnengucapkan setinggi tinggi
terima kasih atas kehadiran TYT Tun Dato' Seri Utama Tun (Dr)
Haji Abdul Rahman bin Haji Abbas, dan yang Amat Berbahagia Toh
Puan Majimor Binti Sharif ke majlis ini dan seterusnya melancarkan
program yang julung-julung kalinya diadakan di Pulau Pinang.
Majlis
ini juga mengalu alukan kehadiran Yang Amat Behormat Tan Sri Koh
Tsu Koon, Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang dan Puan Seri kemajlis ini.
Sesungguhnya kehadiran Yang Amat Behormat ke majlis ini menggambarkan
keprihatinan Yang Amat Behormat terhadap usaha kita dalam penyatuan
umat sejagat dan etika global melalui kepelbagaian agama yang
dianuti.
Ladies
and Gentlemen,
In
this age of globalization, our cultural boundaries and religious
boundaries are breaking down. No matter what religion we may ourselves
espouse, we find that we have to live and work together with people
of other religions both at home and abroad. Just as we work towards
internationally recognized and accepted environmental standards,
standards of transparency, provision of basic necessities, education
and so forth, so we should also work towards internationally recognized
and accepted ethical standards.
The
promoters of the global ethic are right to assume that the question
of morals and ethics are always coloured by religion. People of
different religions will be committed first and foremost to the
teachings of their own religion and this is why differences have
frequently arisen between people of different religions. But we
have heard that all religions teach us to be good, so we must
be able to find something good that we can all agree upon. In
Malaysia, we have no excuse to be ignorant about other major religions
practiced in our country. This knowledge is the basis of mutual
respect and a common civilization.
In
the West they talk about 'clash of civilizations'. It is a theory
based on distortions of history, but it would be a global disaster
if that were allowed to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. We
have to fight ignorance with knowledge and information. We need
to counteract this by promoting a message of `co-existence of
civilizations' and 'dialogue of civilizations'.
Here,
in Penang and in Malaysia, we are in a good position to promote
this dialogue of civilizations, and to get the leading minds at
home and abroad to engage in articulating the common values and
common aspirations of people of different ethnicities, cultural
backgrounds and faiths. And we must move beyond articulating these
shared value to promoting them, in school education, in university
education and in public education.
Professor
Hans Kueng, the author of `World Religions-Global Ethic-Universal
Peace' and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation has laid out the teachings
of the world religion in plain language so it becomes a tool for
civic education schools. Dato' Hishamuddin has encouraged the
teaching of the Golden Rule in the newly established subject of
civic education for Muslim and non-Muslim students. Step-by step
to expand on this so that Malaysian children can become more educated
about common values shared by peoples of different faiths and
cultures.
In
our university we must prepare our students not only to complete
academically and economically in a globalizing world, but also
to work towards a better world. More than before, we need young
people who have a commitment to ethical standards and universal
peace. It is a fact that people of different faiths have to work
together not only for socio-economic development but also to protect
the earth's environment, to fight against corruption, to strive
for peace and to speak out against war.
Bagi
mengakhiri ucapan saya, sekali lagi bagi pihak Universiti Sains
Malaysia dengan hormat takzimnya mengucapkan terimakasih atas
kesudian TYT Tun dan Toh Puan hadir dan seterusnya melancarkan
program ini. Saya juga mengambil kesempatan ini mengucapkan terima
kasih kepada Yang Amat Berhormat Tan Sri Koh Tsu Koon, Ketua Menteri
Pulau Pinang kerana dapat hadir kemajlis ini walaupun mempunyai
tugas yang ketat setiap hari.
Sesungguhnya
program ini amat penting dalam visi penyatuan umat sejagat melalui
kepelbagaian agama di dunia ini.
Sekian,
Terima kasih.
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