UK Muslim youths in summer camp against extremism
Britain's first "anti-terror" summer camp opened Saturday, with the goal of teaching Muslim youth how to rebuff extremists who try to recruit them at schools and in online chat rooms. The three-day event hopes to equip hundreds of students with arguments from the Quran on how to respond to people with radical beliefs, encounters some at the camp said happen regularly.
"We want to give youngsters a balanced view of Islam and to remove the misconception of what jihad actually is," organizer Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri told The Associated Press. "Extremists have confined the act of jihad to the act of militancy and violence. This is totally wrong according to Quranic commandments." (AP)
