Leaders at the biggest ever Islamic summit on terrorism vowed yesterday to fight extremist ideology, saying they would reform textbooks and school curriculums.
“The Islamic nation is in a crisis. This crisis does not reflect on the present alone, but also on its future and the future of humanity at large,” the summit’s final statement, dubbed the Mecca Declaration, said. Kings, heads of states and ministers from more than 50 Muslim countries – including Saudi’s King Abdullah and Jordan’s monarch - yesterday closed the two-day Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit held in Islam’s holiest city, Mecca.
“We need decisive action to fight deviant ideas because they are the justification of terrorism,” it said. “We are determined to fight terrorism in all its forms.”
deviant from what exactly?
In the declaration, the countries promised to “change national laws to criminalise terror financing and incitement” as well as correct school curriculums to purge extremist ideas.
Ahhhhh so they were wrong all this time??
“Islam is the religion of moderation. It rejects extremism and isolation. There is a need to confront deviant ideology where it appears, including in school curriculums. Islam is the religion of diversity and tolerance,” it said.
It has always been like that, but who created the monster?
It also underlined that “fatwas” - or Islamic religious edicts - must only be issued by “those who are authorised,” an effort to rein in edicts by clerics who denounce other Muslims as “apostates” and allow their killing.
The summit meetings were held at the Safa Palace, adjacent to the Grand Mosque. Saudi security forces and Soldiers of the Royal Guard imposed tight security. Still, tens of thousands of pilgrims poured into Islam’s most holy site to perform Omra.
Pathetic, that’s what we are.
[Via 7Days]
