ABC newspaper interviews Monawar Hussain, Muslim imam of Oxford who participated in an ICS congress
The imam was one of the keynote speakers at the international congress 'Abrahamic religions and interfaith relations in the past and present'.
The newspaper ABC 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, Monawar Hussain affirms that "there is no conflict between Islam and democracy" and advocates fighting terrorism with a moderate Islam. Likewise, he assures that "to defeat extremism we must defeat the extreme right as well, we must be all together. They hate that we are together and fight together. They drink from each other and the Europeans are in the middle".
In that sense, he insists that "we need the intelligence services, the police, the religious communities to work together behind those who want to spread this radicalism. If we are separated, these people will continue.