July 18, 2012
Speak Up Against Extremism, counsels HRH Raja Dr. Nazrin Shah
By Rozanna Latiff (07-17-12) | news@nst.com.my
MODERATES in Muslim nations as well as a West contingency confront extremism outset not usually from a religious establishment though additionally in in between those who hold up policies which can lead to violence.
Raja Muda of Perak Raja Dr. Nazrin Shah pronounced yesterday moderates needed to speak up opposite terrorism as well as extremism, including opposite powerful members of a media as well as governments which supported hardline unfamiliar as well as security policies which could lead to dispute abroad.
"In this regard, a rising of a Global Movement of Moderates by a budding apportion (Datuk Seri Najib Razak) is an critical initiative in galvanising as well as uniting assuage voices of assent in in between people of all cultures as well as beliefs."
He pronounced this during a launch of 9/11 as well as a Attack upon Muslims, a collection of essays by Tan Sri Munir Majid.
Originally published in a New Straits Times in a four years following a Sept 11, 2001 militant attacks in a United States, a essays etch how a US leadership's neo-conservative unfamiliar process was eventually used to acknowledgement an open war upon Muslims.
It additionally highlights a suffering of Muslims afterwards without shortening a concern of a 9/11 attacks or provident Muslims for unwell to contain a roots of terrorism.
Raja Nazrin pronounced a book offering profitable lessons upon a dangers of binary or "black-and-white" thinking."I hold Munir's target in writing this book is to set up bridges in in betwe! en a Mus lim world as well as a West rsther than than to destroy them. It is as much about a dangers of anti-West view hold by Muslims as it is about anti-Muslim sentiments hold by a West."
He pronounced a misunderstanding in in between Muslims as well as a West arose from a failure to promulgate effectively.
"Among a distortions in a West are a identification of Islam as well as Muslims with assault as well as terrorism, a presumption which Islam is incompatible with democracy as well as a confusion of a influence of convention as well as enlightenment with religion. Muslims additionally share responsibility. Giving Islamic appellations to militant movements as well as committing militant acts in a name of Islam opposite unarmed civilians have contributed to (Islam's) disastrous picture as well as bargain in a West."
Meanwhile, Munir, who is visiting senior fellow, Southeast Asia International Affairs Programme during LSE IDEAS, pronounced there was no justification for acts of terror though a means should be addressed to revoke a incidence. He combined US President Barack Obama's more consultative unfamiliar process had since some goal as distant as Muslims were concerned.
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