The College of Islamic Sciences at the University of Baghdad organized a workshop entitled “The Role of Religious Discourse and Awareness in Combating Terrorism” with the participation of Dr. Maha Talib Abdullah and Dr. Shaima Dawood Latif, researchers and specialists in Islamic and intellectual studies.
The workshop sought to achieve several main objectives, including demonstrating the importance of religious discourse and awareness in confronting extremism and terrorism, analyzing contemporary religious discourse, evaluating its role in promoting peace and tolerance, proposing mechanisms for developing religious discourse and directing it towards combating terrorism, and identifying the role of religious and educational institutions in spreading awareness and combating extremism.
The workshop dealt with several main topics, including the legal foundations of religious discourse and its importance in confronting extremism, the role of religious discourse in strengthening national identity, combating extremist ideology, religious discourse, and the media, how to use them to spread awareness and combat terrorism, and experiences and expertise from different countries in using religious discourse to combat terrorism.
The workshop recommended the need to develop religious discourse to keep pace with contemporary challenges and to be more effective in confronting extremism and terrorism, and the importance of cooperation between religious, educational, and media institutions in spreading awareness and combating extremism.