Islamic cleric, Shaykh Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri, a Pakistani, is fighting back by holding an “anti-terror camp.” “Al-Hidayah,” an Islamic retreat at the University of Warwick, in the UK, is the first of its kind, a three day camp designed to tackle Islamic extremism and terrorism.
Coventry, England (CNN) -- Tired of Islamic terror camps grabbing headlines, a Pakistani Muslim cleric is fighting back by holding his own "anti-terror camp." Islamic cleric Shaykh Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri is the man behind "Al-Hidayah," an Islamic retreat at the University of Warwick, in the UK. He preaches peace and love and tolerance -- but not for radical extremists.
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Coventry, England (CNN.COM) – Tired of Islamic terror camps grabbing headlines, a Pakistani Muslim cleric is fighting back by holding his own “anti-terror camp.” Islamic cleric Shaykh Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri is the man behind “Al-Hidayah,” an Islamic retreat at the University of Warwick, in the UK.
COVENTRY, England — "Follow the Prophet Mohammed, don't follow bin Laden!" That was the message from an anti-terrorism summer camp led by a top scholar which attracted hundreds of young Muslims this week. Al-Hidayah (The Guidance) was led by Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, who earlier this year issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, against terrorism.
COVENTRY: Prominent Islamic scholar Dr Muhammad Tahirul Qadri urged participants at an anti-terrorism summer camp to follow the Prophet (PBUH) and not Osama bin Laden. That summer camp, named al-Hidayah (The Guidance), which concluded on Monday, was led by the scholar and attracted hundreds of young British Muslims this week. His message to the roughly 1,300 people attending the three-day event on a university campus in Coventry, central England, was clear – terrorism is anti-Islamic.
Vi prøver å lære opp de unge, slik at de skal greie å slå tilbake argumentene fra de radikale. Vi vil gi dem kunnskap til å motsi ekstremistene og bekjempe ideologien deres, sier Shahid Mursaleen til britiske The Guardian. Han er talsperson for bevegelsen Minhaj-ul-Quran – en sufi-muslimsk bevegelse som har satt seg som hovedmål å bekjempe islamistisk terrorisme og ekstremisme.
C’est le genre de nouvelles qu’on aimerait lire plus souvent. Un sommet musulman antiterroriste s’est terminé hier à Coventry après trois jours de débats et d’activités. Il avait été initié par Tahir ul-Qadri, un ouléma d’origine pakistanaise vivant au Canada. Qadri a fait parler de lui plus tôt cette année en émettant une fatwa contre le terrorisme.
Pendant trois jours, près de 1300 jeunes musulmans, hommes et femmes, venus d'Angleterre, mais aussi des États-Unis et du Canada, se sont rassemblés près de Birmingham, dans les locaux de l'université de Warwick, pour trouver des solutions à la montée de l'extrémisme, notamment dans les écoles et les universités. «Al-Hidayah 2010», sorte de «camp d'été antiterroriste», comme le décrivent les médias britanniques, proposait conférences, débats et activités multiples autour d'un thème central : comment faire face aux arguments des islamistes radicaux ?
On the agenda were lectures about issues faced by Muslims living in the West such as terrorism, suicide bombing and integration as well as music and sports, plus prayers in the room which is usually the students' disco. But for many attendees, one highlight was the opening speech by Tahir-ul-Qadri, the Canadian-based founder of moderate Islamic NGO Minhaj-ul-Quran International, during which he spoke out against Al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden.
MUHAMMAD TAHIR-UL-QADRI: ...clear according to Qur'an and Sunna, these kind of people having this terroristic or militant agent that has no link with Islamic teachings...
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The head of the organization Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri said `I feel it1s my duty to save the younger generation from radicalization and wave of terroristic recruitment in the West`. `We need to prepare them mentally and academically, intellectually and spiritually, against extremist tendencies and terrorist attitudes`. Qadri is a Pakistan based religious scholar who has been promoting peace and inter-faith dialogue for 30 years. He also issued a 600 page fatwa denouncing terrorists and suicide bombers to be unbelievers. He has written around 400 books and is a scholar of Sufism.
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Devotees of Muslim scholar Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri have gathered at the University of Warwick's campus to be taught practical ways of countering extremist views in their schools, universities and communities. They have been learning how to engage with people expressing extremist views and are being directed to passages in the Qur'an and other Islamic texts to allow them to argue against them.
LONDON The first major Muslim event designed specifically to tackle Islamist extremism and terrorism will take place in the UK this weekend. Kicking off on Saturday, al-Hidayah 2010 is a three-day event taking place at the University of Warwick in the English Midlands.
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