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President of the Islamic Cultural Center of Valencia |
The conference "Islam, democracy and Western societies' closes the cycle of UPCT on the Islamic world.
"We need to know," he stresses the rapporteur, who believes that Spain "still time to avoid making mistakes in integration of France '
The president of the Islamic Cultural Center of Valencia, Telecommunications engineer, a sociologist and a degree in Islamic Sciences Abdelaziz Hammaoui 32, closes the series on Tuesday the Islamic world that has organized the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) in Pedreño Palace Cajamurcia Foundation, and for which they have been experts in society, culture and geopolitics of Islamic world as well as connoisseurs of jihadist terrorism and its prevention, a topic of the most dramatic today will also be addressed in the paper tomorrow.
- The attacks in Paris generate more interest in the Islamic world or an outright rejection?
- At the Islamic Cultural Center of Valencia we have reached us these days some e-mails racist and Islamophobic, but also a social worker who asked us more information to deal with barbarism.
There are many reasons, historical, cultural, social and geopolitical, to reach out to the Islamic world and organizing such cycles, which can help why some young people have acted this way in Paris.
Although the first reaction is anger and sadness, then the causes need to know arises.
- Afraid to increase xenophobia?
- Unfortunately, it has always been.
Terrorism and hatred of Islam feed back.
The attack comes from wonder to racist because it feeds his speeches.
- What is the opinion held by Muslims who come to Spain the Islamic State?
- Any sensible and Muslim rejects his heart barbaric methods, even those who justify certain things for the actions of Israel or the United States.
There is consensus to reject it and anger because we placed permanently in the dock, having us to defend every day.
- Is there Islamophobia in Spain?
- There, as elsewhere since 11-S, but much less than other countries.
Spanish, despite having less experience in coexistence in diversity, have proven to be much more tolerant and understanding their neighbors.
- The problems of coexistence can be higher with the children of migrant Muslims?
- In the second generation of migrants it is a great human potential, but bad policies can convert them into enemies of their own country.
We are in time to avoid mistakes such as those in France, avoiding the appearance of ghettos and investing in multiculturalism in cities like Cartagena, with great presence of Muslims.
We must promote public administrations from real coexistence, not mere tolerance between communities.
Schools should teach other cultures, other holidays.
- What explains that young people born or raised in Europe are captured for Jihad?
- Although now people like Marine Le Pen put the focus on magnets and ask close mosques, the religious factor is less important in the radicalization of these young people.
Who preach radical Islam only ignite the spark, the fuel is the socioeconomic situation of oppression and marginalization, which makes many young foreigners born in France feel and have to be renamed to find employment.
Of course, we must also promote a moderate Islam, to marginalize the extremist speech, but they lack means, because Internet hate speech is present in many web.
- How is the relationship between Islam and democracy?
- Islam is not at all incompatible with democracy, but it teaches the community that elects their political and religious leaders.
In Islam there is no notion of religious state and no one can rule on behalf of God.
For decades they have been passed misconceptions about the Islamic world and would like to clarify at the conference on Tuesday and leave time for discussion, because we need to know each other better.
Reciprocally.
I also had to correct, when I came to Spain fifteen years ago, many misconceptions about Western notions I had in Morocco.
Source: UPCT
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