{"id":1273,"date":"2013-02-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bahai.org.au\/index.php\/news\/harmony-sets-tone-for-anti-racism-theme-at-interfaith-event\/"},"modified":"2017-10-14T04:49:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T04:49:54","slug":"harmony-sets-tone-for-anti-racism-theme-at-interfaith-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bahai.org.au\/index.php\/harmony-sets-tone-for-anti-racism-theme-at-interfaith-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Harmony sets tone for anti-racism theme at interfaith event"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bahai.org.au\/Portals\/0\/VIPs%20and%20hosts%20at%20Brisbane%20interfaith%202013.jpg\" alt=\"Harmony sets tone for anti-racism theme at interfaith event\" \/><figcaption>(Left to right) Cr Peter Matic, representing the Lord Mayor of Brisbane; Dr Chris Day, Baha&#8217;i host; Ms Teresa Gambaro, Federal MP for Brisbane; Dr Janet Khan, Baha&#8217;i host.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Voices raised in harmony adorned the opening of a World Religion Day celebration attended by a capacity audience at the Baha\u2019i Centre of Learning in Brisbane on 3 February 2013.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Sweet Chilli<\/em> women\u2019s choir from Maleny established a theme of religious unity in a musical invocation from various faiths performed in the a capella style.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of the Baha\u2019i, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh and Zoroastrian communities then read excerpts from their holy scriptures that illuminated the theme of the event\u2014 \u201cEliminating Racism- the Role of Religion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the special guests were the Queensland Governor\u2019s representative Commander Dominic Katter; the Lord Mayor\u2019s representative, Cr Peter Matic; the Federal MP for Brisbane, Ms Teresa Gambaro, the State MP for Mt Coot-tha, Mrs Saxon Rice, and Brisbane City Councillor Kim Marx.<\/p>\n<p>Other civil dignitaries included the Queensland Police Service Commissioner, Ian Stewart, former Police Commissioner, Bob Atkinson, and Indooroopilly State School principal, Helen Kenworthy.<\/p>\n<p>The MC, Audrey Aumua, paid a special tribute to the traditional owners of the land, before introducing the event\u2019s anti-racism theme by saying that racial prejudice violates the dignity of human beings and blights human progress.<\/p>\n<p>The interfaith event was a way of having a dialogue about the role of religion in eliminating racism, Ms Aumua said.<\/p>\n<p>She introduced keynote speaker, Nikki A-Khavari, a member of the Baha\u2019i Council of Queensland, who said racism did not originate within the human spirit but rather within the human mind. It is an erroneous notion that humans belong to separate races and therefore deserve differential treatment, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Ms A-Khavari, a lawyer by profession, said the Baha\u2019i view was that the oneness of mankind had to be implemented by appropriate legal measures, but that this was not enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFull equality\u201d Ms A-Khavari noted, \u201crequires the transformation of the individual\u201d to overcome racist ideas as they arise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Religion has the inherent capacity to instil in the hearts and minds an awareness of, and sensitivity to, human rights and the equality of all people,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The musical interludes during the event included recitals by guitarist Joshua Toloui-Wallace and pianist Denzil Aumua, both Baha\u2019is, as well as a performance on harp, drum and guitar by Helen Gilmour and Rachael Austin of the Pagan community.<\/p>\n<p>The program came to an uplifting conclusion with a performance on the erhu by Dr Nicholas Ng from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, and more songs by the <em>Sweet Chilli<\/em> choir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voices raised in harmony adorned the opening of a World Religion Day celebration attended by a capacity audience at the Baha\u2019i Centre of Learning in Brisbane on 3 February 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-releases","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.2 - 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