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Tunis to host conference on denigration of Islam and Muslims

The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) and the Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World (FUIW), in collaboration with the Ez-zitouna University, will hold an experts meeting to discuss ways to activate the Draft University Education Action Programme to Counter Offences against Islam and Muslims.

The meeting will discuss and adopt the final version of the programme and consider its implementation plan besides seeking ways to enhance cooperation and coordination between Islamic organizations and associations in the Muslim world, reported Taqrib News Agency (TNA).

Among other topics to be discussed in the two-day conference are Muslim communities in the West concerning issues related to redressing misinformation about Islam and Muslims disseminating Islamic civilization, countering denigration of Islam, its symbols and its sanctities.

The meeting will bring together university professors and experts in information, communication, Islamic sciences and humanities from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Morocco and Libya, and from non-Muslim countries, particularly the Netherlands and Russia.

It is noteworthy that the Fifth General Conference of the FUIW (Baku,12-14 May 2010) approved the Broad Lines of the Draft Action Program submitted by the FUIW General Secretariat, and entrusted it to elaborate the draft and propose mechanisms to implement it in collaboration with Al-Asmarya University for Islamic Sciences in Libya.

In the same vein, ISESCO and the FUIW held a preliminary experts meeting to discuss the said Draft Action Programme, on 6-8 to February 2011 in the aforementioned Libyan university, with the participation of university secretaries and deans and a host of experts and professors.

Dr EL Mahjoub Bensaid, Head of ISESCO Information Division, will represent ISESCO and the FUIW in the meeting and supervise its academic and organizational aspects.

This conference is to be held in Tunis, on 3-4 April 2012.

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