The Islamic conference started on a note of consensus. All delegates agreed that practices of Islamophobia and religious intolerance were morally abhorrent. However, greater debate emerged on the subjects of its threat, dimension and counter-measures. There was a clear dichotomy between, nations with a liberal stance, notably Libya who downplayed the threat, and those from more conservative regimes who saw the challenge as omnipresent. The Saudia Arabian delegate spoke convincingly on Western misinterpretation of Islamic doctrine and the semantic dissonance between the ‘West and the rest’.
The discussion of Sharia law’s place in the world was similarly intense. The delegate from Egypt questioned the manipulated variants of this civil code. Whilst questions of interpretation and definition were also raised, concerns over Wahhabism and other extremist variants were taken into account by all participants.
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