Islam has no relation with car bombs and explosive belts, Saleh

President Ali Abdullah Saleh stressed on Tuesday the importance of the role of scholars in the process of upgrading social awareness, offering advice and dissemination of tolerance of cultures, turning the society away from the culture of extremism.
 

A number of scholars participated in the meetings of Islam and Tourism Forum, organized by the Ministry of Tourism. During the meeting, President Saleh said the righteousness of rulers and scholars leads the righteousness of the entire Islamic nation.
 

The president affirmed that what is happening in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and north Yemen is due to ignorance of the proper Islam, noting that Islamic scholars should work to clear such kind of misunderstanding and call the nation for mediation without extremism.
 

President Saleh called upon Islamic scholars and intellectuals to argue those misguided people who wear explosive belts, set booby trapped cars and promote terrorism, in order to persuade them to get rid of their mistaken thoughts.
 

Saleh talked about situation developments in the war-afflicted Sa’adah governorate. He said that those who ignited the rebellion aim at taking power of the country and forgot that the Yemeni Revolution took place 47 years ago against oppression, poverty, ignorance, illness and backwardness.
 

“They dream of regaining the Imamate era and we believe that any Yemeni has the right to dream of power but through ballot boxes and not by means of terrorism and destruction and slogans of death for America, death for Israel, while Israel is not there in Sa’adah,” the president said. 

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