President al-Assad underscored the importance of the Union to face challenges encountering the Arabs, Muslims and dealing with them seriously, particularly conveying the true image of Islam in light of the distorting campaign to which Muslims are exposed.
As for extremism, the President said that there is nothing called extremism in Islam, adding "Islam is extremist in good and amity and in regards to organizing societies, promoting and developing them."
On Islam and Arabism, President al-Assad went on to say that a lot of Arab Muslims have separated Arabism form Islam while the non-Arab Muslim is still linking the two notions.. wondering how we separate the Arabism of the Prophet Mohammad from Islam, and how we separate the holy Quran from Arabism and its Arab and Islamic context while the Prophet had boasted of his Arabism and belonging to Quraish.
The President added "so, we couldn’t separate the two notions.. Arabism was the bearer of the thought of Quran and its instructions, and Islam has kept Arabism and the Arab Language."
For his part, Chairman of the Levant Scholars' Union, Dr. Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti expressed confidence that the Union will contribute to solving the problems in the society through the efforts of the scholars and through Islamic documented reference.
He considered that Syria's message has not been clear throughout ages as it will be clear during this age.
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