DOHA, February 25, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – A Qatar-hosted conference has called for disseminating the culture of peaceful resistance to aggressive policies adopted by world powers towards Muslim countries.

The conference, entitled "peaceful resistance to aggression against the Muslim world" and was due to wrap up later on Friday, February 25, is attended by a cohort of senior Muslim scientists, intellectuals and men of letters from all over the world.

A punch of working papers were discussed during the three-day gathering on the legal, economic, political, media and educative resistance to all forms of aggressions against the Muslim world.

Dr. Abdel Rahman al-Nuaimi, the chairman of the Arab Center for Studies and Research and the chairman of the organizing committee, said Muslims are coming under severe fierce campaigns from world parties attempting to impose their hegemony over the Muslim countries and destroy social systems there.

Such campaigns aim at tarnishing the image of Islam and mocking at the constants and values of the Muslim peoples, he told the opening session.

"In response to such aggressive campaigns, the conference calls for the adoption of all peaceful means as well as the economic, media and legal tools, to stand up to these aggressions."

Khaled Mashal, the Hamas politburo chief, for his part, stressed that peaceful resistance is the only way for the Muslim nation to get out of its current dilemma.

"The peaceful resistance acquires a special importance for a host of reasons, foremost of which is that any military aggression is accompanied by other types of aggressions to deepen the feeling of defeatism in occupied areas. Consequently, these kinds of aggressions require different forms of resistance."

"Secondly, the resistance is a complete and complicated case that must not be confined to only the military side. It requires other elements to succeed."

Mashal stressed that the main points of the peaceful resistance program center on pushing the western countries to "disengage" from the Zionist project which poses major threats to the whole world.

"The West is now aware that the Zionist entity is posing a major threat to its security. And the Arabs and Muslims have proved that they are able to stand against the US hegemony."

The peaceful resistance is the only way out of the Muslim nation from its current dilemma, Mashal said

Dr. Abdullah al-Nofesi, a Kuwaiti intellectual, agreed.

"If we look at the ties between us (Muslims) and the West, we will find that the West has been trying to impose its hegemony, including at the spiritual and religious levels, on us," he said.

He stressed that the West is touting the new terms of globalization in order to impose hegemony over the whole world.

"This is an intellectual trap through which they want to change the Muslim curricula as they did when propagated that the US is seeking economic interests, especially the oil, in the Arab and Muslim world."

Proving his point, Nofesi cited the severe campaign regarding Al-Quds (Jerusalem), the Israeli-occupied city at the center of a campaign that he said is only meant for changing the Muslim history and religion.

"This campaign was launched against the city for its spiritual importance for the Muslim peoples. This was also the main goal of the past crusades to occupy the city and the support for the Zionist plans to Judaize Al-Quds."

Other participants pressed for a stronger cooperation among all Muslim countries to stand against aggressions against the Muslim nation.

"To stand against such aggressive campaigns, the Muslim peoples must stand together, using all forms of resistance, against such aggressions. This resistance should be based on a comprehensive strategic vision drawn up by senior Muslim scholars," said Sadr al-Din al-Bainoni, the secretary general of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria.