The newspaper "El Mundo" interviews Monawar Hussain, a Muslim imam from Oxford who participated in a congress of the ICS.
In declarations to the newspaper, the imam affirmed that through Education some young people attracted by the radical Islamic ideology can be reclaimed.
The newspaper "El Mundo" has published an interview with Monawar Hussain, Muslim imam, president of the association The Oxford Foundation and advisor at the Hospitals NHS Trust of the University of Oxford (UK), on the occasion of his participation in the international congress 'Abrahamic religions and interreligious relations in the past and present'. The activity was organized by the project 'Religion and Civil Society ' of the Institute for Culture and Society.
In the interview, published two days after the Brussels terrorist attacks, Monawar Hussain said he was "deeply saddened" by the attacks.
Precisely, Hussain created The Oxford Foundation to fight extremism through Education. "Through this we can win back some young people attracted to radical ideology, showing them that what they have been told about Islam is actually the point of view of an extremist minority that does not represent Islam, dismantle their arguments," he said.
In his opinion, it is a problem of "religious literacy": "Some of these Muslims who have not practiced the faith before, who have been in the world of drugs, crime, etc.; they discover Salafist or Wahhabi Islam and look at others with hatred. They go from one extreme to another. They know nothing about their religion and those preachers offer them a way to paradise but in reality, it is a way to hell. Those people call it Islam, but it is something totally alien to our tradition."