Sufi-Minded Islamic Scholars
Brainstorm New Ways To Further New Age Islam Foundation's
Multi-Dimensional Campaign Against Islamic Radicalism
By New Age Islam News Bureau
27 August 2013
After the Arab
countries, Afghanistan, Pakistan and some African Muslim regions, the
radical Wahhabi/Salafi Ideology is now aggressively engaged in
radicalizing new Muslim generations of India. It is about time for the
silent majority of peace-loving mainstream Muslims to speak up and give
up remaining silent onlookers. An overwhelming majority of Indian
Muslims are peaceful, nationalistic, patriotic and followers of the Sufi
saints. Given this, it is quite shocking and shameful that Wahhabi
extremism has started sweeping across this country too.
New Age Islam Foundation
organised a brainstorming session in its own premises in Delhi on
Saturday, 24th of August, with a number of Islamic scholars, Sufi
ideologues, social activists and grassroots workers with an aim to
finding newer ways of checking the growth of hard-line ideology in the
country and spreading the Islamic message of peace and tolerance as a
counterattack on the ideological extremism that seems to be fast
overwhelming Indian Muslim mindset too.
The
meeting was part of a broad agenda of New Age Islam Foundation to
foster global peace by ideologically countering extremist, militant
ideologies. The agenda was to determine how New Age Islam Foundation
can further contribute to reducing the deleterious impact of religious
extremism, doctrinal conservatism, and theological radicalism
penetrating into the mindset of the global Muslim community in general
and the new generation of Indian Muslims in particular.
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