Dr. Mohammad Bayoumi, Dean of Usul al-Din faculty in Zagazig, said that extremism and terrorism have no religion. He added that leaders of extremism, despite their different inclinations, intended to mislead their militant followers by misconceptions, overwhelming enthusiasm, and reckless rush; hence, they lost the correct understanding of science and knowledge tools, while not recognizing reality with its realms and ideas.
This came during the lecture convened by the World Organization for al-Azhar Graduates in Cairo, under the title of “Corruptors on Earth”. A number of international students from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, Chad and Pakistan, attended the lecture.
Dr. Bayoumi stressed that the misconceptions of the intolerant extremist groups motivated that kind of illogical thinking, discourse and inhuman behavior. All this led to that ugliness, destruction, vandalism and bloodshed; these heinous acts undermined the Islamic values that urge security, safeness, mercy and peace. Indeed, these extremist acts contradict the guidance of Islam that called upon all Muslims to enter into the circle of peace and safeness, all together.
The truth about Islamists is their ability to gather all sorts of the different power circles, whether cultural, political or economic ones, which go contrary to the conception of the extremist groups to use murder and terrorism. Indeed, the extremists will never be able to own the souls and the minds, even though they may fancy they owned the bodies.
Dr. Bayoumi emphasized that Islam, in its alphabets, has its religious and human principles that preserves the rights of non-Muslims under the umbrella of the Islamic legislation as well as the Quranic and Sunnah texts, upon which it is based. Hence, it was a must to codify such human relationship in the light of that effect (they have what we have and what we have to do), and in the light of the natural course of diversity and difference that encourages acquaintance and cooperation, but not hatred and contradiction.
Dr. Bayoumi pointed out as well that Islam has established the principles of mercy, amity, tolerance, peaceful coexistence and citizenship. These principles are not acknowledged by the extremist leaders who spread corruption and trouble, using their exclusionary methodology that categorizes people on ethnical, racial and ideological bases that have nothing to do with Islam or the Islamic Shri’ah.
