ABU DHABI // A strategic plan recently approved by the Muslim Council of Elders involves comprehensive projects for promoting dialogue and raising awareness.
In addition to sending delegations of scholars and elders to hot-spots to explain that Islam does not support violence, there will be a programme that addresses some of the controversial matters facing Islam.
“The questions will explain matters that others are using to spread sedition,” said Dr Kaltham Al Muhairi, an Islamic studies professor at Zayed University. “Sedition promoters take some issues in Islam and place them in a certain context to serve their opinions, so the questions will clarify these issues.”
Conferences, conventions and workshops will be held involving religious figures, politicians, academics and business figures.
Another initiative, Madrasa in a Box, will select books that promote mainstream Islam and send them to religious institutions around the world to counter extremist literature.
An online channel will also be established to spread scholars’ sermons and interviews on Islamic issues. Newspaper opinion articles on the constructive role of Islam and an annual “State of the Ummah” report are also on the agenda.
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