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By Agence France Presse (AFP)

Jordan committee to promote Muslim dialogue
By Agence France Presse (AFP)

Monday, August 13, 2007

AMMAN: Jordan has formed a committee of 100 Muslim scholars to address through dialogue "critical issues" affecting Muslims around the world, a statement said on Saturday. The using the power of ideas as a means of calming conflict and finding a resolution to problems of the gravest importance." The statement said controversies such as the 2005 Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, have "exposed the lack of intellectual leadership" in the Muslim world. This "must be addressed with the utmost urgency to prevent further rifts in human understanding. The committee proposes to conquer immediate and future fears and misapprehensions, which are so easily exploited by extremists of every kind." In September 2005, some European newspapers, led by Jyllands-Posten in Denmark, printed cartoons satirizing the Muslim Prophet Mohammad, sparking an outpouring of Muslim anger and violence worldwide. The committee is headed by the uncle of King Abdullah II, former crown prince Hassan. It groups Muslim figures from around the world, including the director general of the Islamic Organization of Education, Science and Culture, Abdul-Aziz Othman Altwaijri, and former Yemeni prime ministers Abdul Karim al-Eryani and Haider Abu Bakr al-Attas. - AFP

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