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US needs madrassas’ help against terror: Hunt

LAHORE: United States Consulate principal officer Bryan D Hunt said on Friday that the US wanted to seek cooperation from the religious seminaries for its fight against terrorism and that it also wanted to see religious seminaries promoting peace.

Hunt said this while addressing the administrators of religious seminaries and senior teachers at a five-day workshop that was organised by the Muslim Christian Federation International.

People should respect the beliefs of others for the establishment of peace in the world and the international community should promote dialogue instead of hatred, Hunt added. Jamiat Ulema-e-Ahl-e-Hadith chief and Alliance for Restoration of Democracy deputy secretary general Qazi Abdul Qadir said the religious seminaries were the citadel of Islam and inheritors of the Islamic culture. “Instead of instigating hatred and propaganda against the religious seminaries, the world should start a dialogue with the administrators and organisations of the religious seminaries to promote peace in the world,” he added.

The religious seminaries were teaching tolerance and brotherhood according to the guidelines of the Quran and the Hadith, he said, adding that the recent suicide attacks in the country were not a result of instigation by religious seminaries. Qadir said the real cause of terrorism was the unjust and flawed foreign policy of the US government and the other western powers toward Muslim countries.

Linking suicidal attacks and terrorism with religious seminaries was illogical, he said, adding that the world should acknowledge that terrorism could not be eliminated by use of force only. Qadir further said if the US and the North Atlantic Treaty organization (NATO) forces were withdrawn from Iraq and Afghanistan and the superpowers stopped supporting dictators across the Muslim world, terrorism would be automatically eliminated from the world. staff report

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