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Morocco, Chad strengthen cooperation in countering religious extremism

Xinhua, February 10, 2016 Adjust font size:

Morocco and Chad signed here on Wednesday an agreement aimed at combating religious extremism.

Inked by Moroccan Islamic Affairs Minister Ahmed Toufiq and the President of the High Council for Islamic Affairs in Chad Hussein Hassan Abakar, the agreement provides for training of 200 Chadian imams in the Mohammed VI Institute for Training Imams, Murshidins and Murshidats (religious preachers).

According to the agreement, Morocco will build a cultural complex and a mosque in N'Djamena, and will grant the Chadian council membership in the Mohammed VI Foundation for African Ulema, a recently created body designed to join and coordinate the efforts of Muslim scholars in Morocco and other African states in order to highlight, disseminate and consolidate the values of tolerant Islam.

These documents "open a new page of cooperation between Morocco and numerous African countries in the field of Islamic affairs in general, and between Morocco and Chad in this domain in particular," the Moroccan minister told the press.

For his part, the president of the High Council for Islamic Affairs in Chad, Hussein Hassan Abakar, hailed Morocco's experience in the management of religious affairs, expressing the willingness of his country to further benefit from it. Endit