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Al-Azhar imam urges anti-terror ideological battle – Arab News

Editor November 17, 2015

A leading Sunni imam called Monday for an ideological battle against Daesh militants, including the deployment and training of moderate clerics in Europe to counter extremist thought.
“It primarily requires an intellectual treatment,” Abbas Shoman, the deputy sheikh of Egypt’s Al-Azhar institute, told AFP.
“It should not be limited to security treatment,” he said.
The cleric said Al-Azhar had advised French officials before Friday’s Paris attacks that moderate clerics were needed in France.
Al-Azhar’s head, Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayyeb, condemned the bloody attacks that were claimed by Daesh, describing them as contrary to religion.
“The problem is, those who control religious discourse, they and their stances should be reviewed,” Shoman said.
“You must be certain that those in charge of religious discourse are not helping in the spread of terrorism,” he said.
Shoman said Al-Azhar has little presence in Europe, but the numbers of Europeans who have joined Daesh pointed to the presence of extremist preaching in the continent.
“You will find that these people lack in (Islamic) education, and have not been religious for long, and yet they consider what they’re doing is jihad,” he added.
Shoman, who described coalition air strikes against Daesh as “not serious” and warned against “punishing civilians,” said Al-Azhar could send clerics to France, or train them, to counter extremists.
“You have to open the path for moderate clerics, and Azhar is ready,” he said.
“And if we can’t guide the terrorists, at least we can protect other” Muslims.
Meanwhile, Egyptian security forces shot dead 24 Daesh militants in central Sinai, 70 km from the crash site of the Russian passenger plane the group claimed it brought down, security sources said on Monday.
Security sources said they killed the militants as they hid inside a cave in a mountainous area and that they arrested eight of them.(AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, ARAB NEWS)

Link: http://www.arabnews.com/middle-east/news/836681

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