{"id":143446,"date":"2024-08-11T15:52:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T22:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=143446"},"modified":"2024-08-11T15:52:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T22:52:26","slug":"mufti-sri-lankas-fm-discuss-boosting-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/08\/11\/mufti-sri-lankas-fm-discuss-boosting-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"Mufti, Sri Lanka\u2019s FM discuss boosting cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Egypt Independent<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amayei.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2024\/08\/8202410151041331.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Grand Mufti Shawqi Allam discussed in a meeting with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ali Sabry ways of fostering cooperation between Dar al Iftaa and Sri Lanka in training Muftis and countering extremism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement released on Friday 9\/8\/2024, the Mufti said that Dar al Iftaa established in 2014 the Observatory of Takfiri Fatwas and Extremist Views that has been developed into Salam Center for Extremism Studies, with a view to combating the extremist thought through a disciplined scientific methodology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mufti briefed Sabry on a reference guide to confronting and combating extremism, which was prepared by Dar al Iftaa. The guide offers a comprehensive vision of the concept of extremism and includes effective strategies to confront it on the intellectual, social and cultural levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allam indicated that Dar al Iftaa launched a multi-language app FatwaPro\u201d, which provides correct and moderate religious fatwas to Muslims around the world, with a special focus on Muslim communities in Western countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mufti expressed Dar al Iftaa\u2019s readiness to train Sri Lankan scholars and Muftis on issuing Fatwas and fighting against the extremism thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On his part, the Sri Lankan foreign minister hailed Dar al-Iftaa as being an importance reference source for Muslims around the world, thanks to its experience and its moderate approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sabry said Sri Lanka looks forward to benefiting from Dar al Iftaa\u2019s pioneering expertise in countering extremism, through dispatching a number of Sri Lankan scholars to receive training at the Egyptian Islamic advisory body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Egypt Independent Grand Mufti Shawqi Allam discussed in a meeting with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ali Sabry ways of fostering cooperation between Dar al Iftaa and Sri Lanka in training Muftis and countering extremism. In a statement released on Friday 9\/8\/2024, the Mufti said that Dar al Iftaa established in 2014 the Observatory of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}