MOGADISHU (Halbeeg News) – Intellectual Security in the Context of Combating Terrorism conference in Mogadishu has called on Somali Government to unite the efforts and mechanisms adopted for drying up the sources of terrorism.
Following two day conference, the participants called on the OIC member states to work for the success of the experience of Somalia to become a model for uprooting terrorism and intellectual extremism and drying up their sources through an integrated mechanism encompassing all security, intellectual, media, and political aspects.
The sides called upon the Government of Somalia to intensify religious awareness programs in schools, Quranic schools and television programs to help the discourse of moderation prevail over that of exclusion adopted by terrorist groups.
During the conference, the sides called on the OIC member states to work for the success of the experience of Somalia to become a model for uprooting terrorism and intellectual extremism and drying up their sources through an integrated mechanism encompassing all security, intellectual, media, and political aspects.
The five sessions of the Conference focused on the concepts of intellectual security and on mechanisms for strengthening intellectual immunity and building the Fiqh (jurisprudence) of sound citizenship in the minds of young people in Muslim countries.
The conference called upon the prominent scholars and intellectuals in the Muslim societies to hold conferences and seminars on the dissemination of the culture of intellectual security and the creation of the means required to inculcate it in the minds of the young, expand the theory of knowledge building and its close link to intellectual security and the balanced entrenching of intellectual freedom through activating partnership between all official and community institutions to protect youth from the influence of deviant ideas and false calls incompatible with the teachings of religions.
Leaders from Muslim said the OIC’s efforts in supporting Somalia and its relentless efforts to mobilize support for its causes in all international forums, especially its endeavor to convert its office in Somalia into a regional office representing the OIC across the Horn of Africa; a step that would highlight Somalia’s role and visibility in the Islamic and regional issues.
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