Ali defends Islam against Western misconceptions

PARIS – Chairman of the Center for Middle East Studies in Paris (CEMO) Abdel Rahim Ali said Monday that Muslims were deeply harmed by Western misconceptions about them.

“Westerners tend to view Muslims as terrorists,” Ali said. “The fact, however, is that Islam has nothing to do with all the terrorist ideologies permeating the whole world.”

He added at a conference organized by the CEMO in French capital Paris on the dangers posed by the thinking of the Muslim Brotherhood on Western societies and values that Daesh had mobilized its leaders everywhere in the world with the aim of staging attacks.

Titled “The Danger of Muslim Brotherhood’s Thoughts on Western Values”, the conference is attended by the members of CEMO’s Consulting Committee.

Those attending included international counterterrorism experts Roland Jacquard and Richard Labeviere.

They also included journalist Atmane Tazaghart who is focused on covering terrorist and takfiri groups. A host of Arab and European public figures is also attending the event.