Controversy
Next to the title, also some of its participants were the cause of some controversy. An Arabian article had translated the term 'heretics' as 'kafirun', mainly understood and translated as 'unbelievers'. The article's main focus was professor shaykh Ahmed Subhy Mansour who was a professor at the famous Al-Azhar university in Cairo, which is seen by many as the main authority on Islam in the Muslim world. Shaykh Mansour had to leave the university and Egypt because of his criticism on the country's oppression of minorities and for his criticism on Hadith and Sunna, historical sources that have authority next to the Quran in traditional Islam.
To prevent misunderstandings, the organizers wrote an explanation of the conference goals in Arabic. Not to defend themselves they said, but to give information themselves in the language so the conference would not be misunderstood and unjustifiedly be misrepresented.
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