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and terrorists are a very small minority of the the true and moderate principles of Islam. We
world’s 1.8 billion Muslims who completely use our social media platforms to educate and
disavow and condemn such perverse acts. inform our millions of followers from around
Over the past few decades, extremists and the world about the values of Islam. These
false flag carriers of Islam have carried out values focus on cooperation, empathy, peace
attacks in France, the United States, the United and coexistence. This is not only important for
Kingdom, Germany, Spain and other Western our efforts, but also for our role as a leading
countries. However, the majority of terrorist organization in Islam.
attacks have been perpetrated against Muslims
and Muslim majority countries. These heinous Therefore, I think there is a lot of information
and despicable crimes have received much about the true meaning of Islam if everyone
media attention in the West. would open their eyes, ears and hearts. For
example, when I led a high-level Muslim
Unfortunately, violence is often the only delegation to Auschwitz in 2019, some
thing many in the West know or hear about people, especially within the Islamic world,
Muslims. It is the duty of the international were surprised by this important trip. They
media to present a balanced picture of should not have been surprised because the
Muslims to accurately reflect our culture as a Holocaust is a heinous crime that shook the
whole. In reality, Islam represents a vast and conscience of the world and left a harsh and
diverse group of culturally rich people who unforgettable impact. As I said earlier, anyone
make vital contributions to their national who denies the Holocaust in the name of
societies. They include teachers, public sector Islam or tries to minimize the importance of
employees, firefighters, police officers, doctors, the Nazi atrocities is in fact falsifying history
scientists, technicians, engineers, etc. We are and committing a crime against Islam on the
not a caricature and we ask everyone to take a other hand. This is the real Islam, far from any
closer look at the enriching diversity that goes other ideologically motivated concepts, false
under the name of «Islam» or «Muslim» and illusions or false theories.
to look beyond the terminology to the people
themselves. You also work in the field of counter-terrorism
and improving people’s lives in general,
One of the main tasks of the Muslim World especially regarding women’s rights, how do
League and the Organization of Muslim you find the time to do all this?
Scholars is to correct misconceptions about You must be passionate about what you
Islam and to constantly communicate with do and I am very interested in all of these
religious leaders, scientists, academics, tasks. However, our work at the Muslim
media, «government» and «non-government» World League and the Organization of
officials in the West and elsewhere to discuss Muslim Scholars cannot be done by one

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