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| Senegal Leader Calls for 'Tolerant Islam' across Africa |
| 2015-11-11 |
| [AnNahar] Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... 's President Macky Sall has called for African countries to promote a "tolerant Islam" and share intelligence to combat jihadist groups, while acknowledging recent arrests of preachers. "We must develop a philosophical and theological discourse, training imams with a sense of a tolerant Islam," he said, speaking late Monday at the Dakar International Forum on Peace and Security in the Senegalese capital. "We have just incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! imams in Senegal, a few of them," the president added, warning against any political exploitation of events in the national media, which reported that five people have been charged and taken into custody, including two women. "We cannot allow them to impose another form of religion" with practices that "do not correspond to our traditions or our conceptions of Islam", he said, citing any obligation to wear the full Islamic veil as an example of extremism. "We must have the courage to fight this excessive form" of Islam, Sall added. Senegal is a secular state in west Africa where more than 92 percent of an estimated population of 14 million are Muslims. The president's remarks echoed those made by French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, who also called for the promotion of moderate interpretations of Islam and for radical Islamist propaganda over social media to be fought. Sall also pushed for better intelligence sharing between the countries of the Sahel on the southern edge of the Sahara in an effort to combat armed jihadist groups that operate across borders. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 secular state, moderate islam, arresting the sharia-pushing islamists Senegal has the right idea, leading the world more advanced than the US and Australia in this regard when have we ever outlawed the sharia-pushing islamists like we need to? never, we just keep pretending they dont exist we will no even criticise them for fear of offending secular muslims -- who are the ones actually doing something about it however good luck with that one, senegal |
| Posted by: anon1 2015-11-11 16:49 |
| #1 And I call for hot ice, jumbo shrimp and (insert own oxymoron here). |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-11-11 08:22 |