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"We must collaborate and send a signal to try to find a way to get rid of this extremist," said Ramadan.
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CAIRO,
July 25 (IslamOnline.net) – Muslim scholars from around the world have
gathered in London for a conference addressing the phenomenon of
extremism and Islamophobia.
The
Metropolitan police-sponsored one-day conference Sunday, July 24,
denounced the recent terrorist attacks on London as “barbaric and
inhuman,” and called on the public and media to work more closely with
the Muslim minority, the
Guardian reported.
“All
of us must not fan the flames, we must collaborate and send a signal to
try to find a way to get rid of this extremist threat to this country
... There must be no more killing. There is no justification. The Muslim
community needs to work from within to solve this,” famed
Switzerland-based scholar Tariq Ramadan said.
The
gathering also strongly condemned the mistaken killing of Brazilian Jean
Charles de Menezes by British police, as a direct result of adopting a
shoot-to-kill policy in their massive hunt for four bombers, who failed
to strike London July 21, two weeks after four suicide bombers ripped
through three Tube stations and a bus, killing 52 people.
A
statement issued last week by over 40 leading mosque imams, muftis and
scholars representing all sections of Muslims in Britain stressed that
“there can never
be any excuse for taking an innocent life.”
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