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Source:Wilton Park Conferences

A major conference has been taking place in the UK this week about how the Muslim world and the West can collaborate to tackle extremists. Featuring Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah, Sami Yusuf, Dr. Ali Gomaa (Grand Mufti of Egypt), and many others.

We don’t want to see lack of diversity, because it goes against the very nature of the world we’re living in. But we want to see it as a positive force. We want to see how we can work with these differences, so we need to learn the management of differences, not the elimination of differences. We have to look at the positive qualities and focus on the positive qualities of the different civilisations.
- Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah

Its fantastic when you see things going on … people saying that English, the language of the Devil, and in the Muslim world people hate English and they hate white people and they hate everything the West has to stand for … but its just so not true, you know, because Im a British Muslim, I sing in English, my songs are in English and the popularity of my songs in the Arab world and, generally, the Muslim world, is a testament that thats just not true, because Im singing in English, and Im from Britain, and I make that very clear that Im a British Muslim singer, just to emphasise on the whole Britishness, because I think its very important that the Muslims understand that there is no contradiction. And the vast majority really dont see a contradiction.
-Sami Yusuf