Egypt's president says Islam needs a reboot
Islam needs a reboot as Egypt and France battle the same enemy by waging war against Islamic extremism and terrorism, Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said Thursday.
It's a tolerant religion, he said, but in the past two to three decades it has become more associated with violent extremism.
"The terrible terrorist attacks which we have seen and this terrible image of Muslims is what led us to think that we must stop and think and change the religious discourse, and remove from it things that have led to violence and extremism," El-Sissi said.
"We need a new discourse that will be adapted to a new world and will remove some of the misconceptions," he said. "No one should believe that they have the truth with a capital T."
