Kuwait Times

Published Date: August 30, 2008

ROME: Dr Mohammad Al-Tabtabae, the former Dean of Kuwait University's College of Sharia (Islamic law) and Islamic Studies, yesterday underlined the necessity for sincere efforts to be exerted by political, intellectual and religious powers to confront what he called a wide-scale and vicious campaign against Islam.

The Islamic world shoulders the responsibility of facing a smear campaign instigated against Islam, with such campaigns seeking to deliberately associate infrequent violent incidents committed by Muslim individuals with Islam itself, Al-Tabtabae said.

The former dean has been heading a high-ranking Kuwaiti academic delegation to the international conference on "Humanity in Islam," which was hosted here.
Al-Tabtabae thanked the Italian authorities for hosting the conference for the seventh time, saying that the event had a deeply positive impact on the Muslim community here, as well as on the perception of Islam among Italians.

Al-Tabtabae also expressed gratitude to the Kuwaiti Embassy in Rome and the General Consulate in Milan for their immense efforts in participating in the organization of the conference.

The conference, which was held in the northern Italian city of Bersha on Aug 26, tackled several pivotal issues such as the status of the individual in the Holy Quran, humanitarian aspects in the life of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), issues of equality and justice, and worship from an Islamic perspective.

The conference issued a number of recommendations in the framework
of responding to the campaign launched against Islam and Prophet Mohammad, in addition to buttressing contacts among the one million-strong Muslim community in Italy.

The Kuwaiti delegation grouped professors Issam Al-Ghareeb, Yousef Al-Saqer, Abdulaziz Al-Mutawa, Walid Al-Ali, Bader Al-Mass and religious scholar Othman Al-Haidar. - KUNA