Today, 138 Muslim scholars worldwide signed and sent a letter to Christian leaders calling for peace.
Check out the article – “Unprecedented Muslim call for peace with Christians”
From the article:
Aref Ali Nayed, one of the signatories and a senior adviser to the Cambridge Interfaith Programme at Cambridge University in Britain, said the signatories represented the “99.9 percent of Muslims” who follow mainstream schools and oppose extremism.
“In Islam we have had a problem for some time now where the mainstream voices are drowned out by a minority that choose violence,” he said.
This is quite a positive action performed by these scholars. I wonder, however, if people will continue to ask the usual “But why don’t the Muslims ever say anything!” argument in the future, disregarding the actions mainstream Muslims always put forward to separate themselves from extremists.
The BBC has the text of the article available as a PDF – An Open Letter and Call from Muslim Religious Leaders.
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