(Abu Dhabi) – Over 250 of the world’s leading Islamic scholars have gathered in Abu Dhabi for the opening of the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies. Foreign Minister of UAE, H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, highlighted that the tolerant Islamic Sharia’a was sent from Allah with noble intentions and values, the most important of which is the promotion of peace and the preservation of human lives, to avoid bloodshed and to spread peace.
In his keynote address while opening of “Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies” Forum at the St. Regis Abu Dhabi on Saadiyat Island, Sheikh Abdullah said that one of the main causes of sectarian wars and disputes that tear our nations apart is the absence of a rational voice, and the collapse of the principle of respect for differences, on which humanity is built. Also, the pseudo-learned men who take leadership and prominent positions, issuing Fatwa and occupying high positions in different media organisations, manage to misinform some of those who follow them and do not know better.
The forum which is held under the patronage of Sheikh Abdullah discusses humanitarian issues caused by intellectual and sectarianism conflicts in the Muslim communities because of each party bullying by the person it appointed and housed regardless of the interests of the nation, which leads a number of Muslim scholars to claim the necessity of holding a meeting on a unified position to address the unprecedented unrest and violence in the Islamic world.
