Publish date17 Oct 2017 - 13:07
Story Code : 288178
Proximity Union of youths proposes:

Sport events to boost Islamic unity

Proximity Union of youths and athletes has held meeting as a part of the first conference on diplomacy of unity vowing to set sports as the ground for bringing Muslims from different denominations together.
Sport events to boost Islamic unity
Abedeh Mohammadi from Afghanistan student at international Al Mustafa University and a member of the world union of youths in an interview with Taqrib News Agency (TNA) hailed sports as an influential ground to bring Muslim youths together and vowed a world cup of Islamic games to be held as a plan by the gathering in order to boost solidarity of Muslims.
 
Afghan participant to the first meeting of international conference “The Role of Proximity World Unions of Muslim Elites in Practicing Diplomacy of Unity” and said,” Sports events as an influential ground to bring Muslim youths together when a sports competition convenes people from different ethnicities and countries together though it has its own rules by which all should abide.”
 
She noted,” Islam, Islamic sports and Muslim athletes can play important roles in attracting other Muslims and expand the high Islamic culture across the globe.”
 
She said that the committee of youths and athletes was holding the beginning talks and making agreements for future activities to be implemented.
 
Abedeh Mohammadi also noted,” Participants in this meeting are supposed to attract athletes from their countries to this convention in a bid to expand the present meeting in future.”
 
According to the Afghan scholar union of youths and athletes intended to contribute to expansion of Islamic proximity through sport activities and said,” Firstly we intend to expand sports recommended in Islam jockeying, swimming and archery.”
 
Member of the Union of youths and athletes stated,” We do not intend to hold competitions at the moment we intend to expand our present basic group and then we will strongly focus on further steps too.”
 
Student at Al Mustafa International University said,” Unions of youths and athletes intends to set sports events as a means towards boosting Islamic unity and that will certainly be effective to introduce the true Islamic culture on the margins of the competitions to be held in future.”
 
She expressed hope that the discussions in this meeting go beyond mere meetings and written agreements.
 
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