PRESIDENT:TERRORISM IS NOT IDENTICAL WITH ISLAM

Politics | October 10, 2001, Wednesday // 00:00

The Bulgarian President Petur Stoyanov met Selim Mehmed, Chief Mufti of the Muslims in Bulgaria on October 10. Both declared after the meeting that the anti-terrorism position of the Bulgarian institutions cannot justify the intolerance and aggression towards the Muslims in Bulgaria and abroad. `We are categorical that the terrorism manifestations cannot be identified with Islam, that like every global religion preaches love towards humanity and what has been created by it,` Stoyanov said. According to him, the Bulgarian institutions have to take care of the traditional Islam, without letting the permeation of fundamentalist ideas or distortions that preach violence or hate in Islam.

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