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The 7th conference on Islamic moderation concluded in Yemen's capital of Sana'a with an assertion that moderation must represent a civilized project for the Islamic nation. The participants including big Muslim clerics and intellectuals stressed the necessity for finalizing the Arab and Muslim unity model through a cohesive project that recognizes specialities and confirms common interests.In the final statement titled: Sana'a Declaration of Moderation, they called on Arab and Muslim leaders to support Yemen's unity and face all bids to harm it. Moreover, they called on the Yemeni people to align and work together to defend the national principles and fight seditions and all dirty schemes targeting their homeland. The statement, furthermore, urged to combine the nation components whatsoever views were different with the aim to build a civilized project and improve the educational and media systems to reinforce knowledge and its output as well as educating generations at the culture of tolerance and dialogue. The role of family was also focused on as a main pillar to reinforce the concepts of moderation and coexistence. Also, the participants in the two-day meeting held under the slogan: Islamic Moderation: Concept- Challenges- Roles, urged the Arab and Muslim leaderships to combine their efforts for a united political and economic system with the goal of achieving unity that lays the groundwork for development to face the century's challenges. Minister of Endowments and Guidance Hamoud al-Hitar said the conference made off, praising the efforts of the organizers and participants. He called on all Muslims and Islamic leaderships to embody moderation and reinforce it in various life practices and reconsider the Islamic speech and its contents according to the only references for all Muslims: Quran and Sunnah. The minister also called on the people of other religions to be acquainted with the Islamic moderation that absorbs mankind. For his part, head of the Global Moderation Forum al-Sadiq al-Mahdi said that the meeting, organized by the forum and the Ministry of Endowments and Guidance, laid the bases that could enable the forum of serving the nation according to the stated goals. The 7th Conference on Moderation discussed during two days about 16 work papers that focused on moderation, challenges facing it and its concepts to face extremism and terrorism. They, moreover, dealt with the role of moderation in boosting the development of the Islamic nation. Clerics and intellectuals from Yemen, Sudan, Morocco, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Jordan and Germany took part in the meeting.
