BEIRUT: Fundamentalism, terrorism and radicalism are the biggest challenges facing not just Middle East, but the whole world, Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdel Latif Derian said Tuesday, before traveling to Egypt to attend a conference on combating religious extremism.
Derian said the conference, organized by Sheikh al-Azhar Ahmad al-Tayeb, comes at a time the Arab world is confronting extreme dangers.
“Inter-Muslim relations are of utmost importance in such sensitive conditions, necessitating the initiation of moderate, calm and rational dialogue,” Derian said, stressing that Lebanon’s participation with a delegation comprising Muslims and Christians “is meant to reaffirm Egypt’s leading role in treating major Arab and Islamic issues.”