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At the beginning of his current visit to the United States, King Abdullah
spoke at the Catholic University of America where he said terrorists do not
speak for the Islamic faith.
"The ultimate goal is to take back our religion from the
vocal, violent, and
ignorant extremists who have tried to hijack Islam over the last hundred years,"
he said. "They don't speak for Islam any more than a Christian terrorist speaks
for Christianity and the real voices of our faiths will be and must be heard."
King Abdullah spoke of the Amman Message, a Jordanian initiative that
outlines Islam's social values of compassion, respect and tolerance and rejects
Muslim isolation from the global movement of human society.
In July, he hosted an international conference of Islamic scholars that
agreed in a statement that religious edicts cannot be handed down by people such
as al-Qaida terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.
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