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Turkish president warns over rising antagonism against Muslims after Paris attacks

Xinhua, November 19, 2015 Adjust font size:

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday warned world leaders over a rising antagonism against Muslims after Islamic State (IS) militants launched multiple terror attacks in Paris last week.

Addressing an energy and economic summit hosted by the Atlantic Council think tank in Istanbul, Erdogan urged world leaders to call upon their societies for common sense in the face of rising extremism and growing Islamophobia.

"Those who demonize Islam by looking at Daesh are making a big mistake," he said, using an Arabian acronym for the Islamic State, stressing that the extremist group has nothing to do with real Islam.

The Turkish leader warned that it is inevitable to experience "new and dangerous" disasters unless rising racist attacks and fanaticism are prevented.

"This is the biggest danger for the world peace," he said, calling on the leaders of Muslim countries to take a united front. "Those who knocked on our door in Ankara will knock on your door elsewhere," he cautioned.

Turkey as a Muslim country experienced the republic's worst terror attack in its capital city on Oct. 10, when twin suicide bombings hit and left 102 people dead, while attacks in Paris on Nov. 13 killed at least 129 people.

Amid fears of extremists' mixture with the influx of migrants, calls are growing in Western countries for shutting down borders and halting the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the aftermath of the Paris attacks.

John Huntsman, chairman of the Atlantic Council, urged the world including China to show a global and united response against the threat posed by the IS.

"It is like a metastasizing cancer," he told Xinhua. "If you don't do something to deal with that growing cancer, it can kill the body."

China on Thursday condemned the IS for killing a Chinese national, promising a crackdown on terrorism.

"Terrorism is the common enemy of human beings," Chinese President Xi Jinping said in the Philippine capital of Manila on Thursday, after the Chinese Foreign Ministry had confirmed the death of a man named as Fan Jinghui, who had been held by the IS. Endit