Servicing human beings forms core of religions

Head of the Supreme Council of the World Forum for Proximity of the Islamic Schools of Thought, Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Taskhiri gave central role to servicing and helping humans and underscored the issue forms the core of all divine religions, reported Taqrib News Agency (TNA).

Speaking in the forum titled “Cooperation between Muslims and Buddhists for Confronting Violence and Extremism”, Ayatollah Taskhiri underscored, “in our trip to Buddhist areas, we figured out there stand so many commonalities between Islam and Buddhism.”

The grand Ayatollah underscored the divine religion of Islam is the religion of Kindness and cooperation but unfortunately some groups project a faked image of it to the World.

Head of the Supreme Council of the World Forum for Proximity of the Islamic Schools of Thought severed any possible tie between measures perpetrated by Takfiri groups or Wahhabis and the divine religion of Islam.

Religious leaders and intellectuals from Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand as well as Iranian Muslim scholars took part in the two-day event.

The forum comes as Muslims in a number of countries including Myanmar have come under repeated attacks from extremist groups.

Myanmar’s 1.3 million Muslims, who are denied citizenship, are one of the world’s most persecuted communities, a fact that the UN also attests to.

Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar have faced torture, repression and neglect since the country's independence in 1948. Hundreds of Rohingyas have been killed and over 140,000 displaced in attacks over the past two years.
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