Scholars fail to persuade fanatics [Archives:2002/37/Local News]

Sources close to the families of Yemeni Afghans who were detained by the Yemeni government said that the committee of scholars appointed by the authorities to lecture those youths to be moderate Muslims and abandon their radical ideas has failed to persuade them to change their ideas about Islam.
The scholars’ failure can be ascribed to the belief by the Yemeni Afghans that they are authority scholars used by the government to exert psychological pressure on them.
The sources added that the scholars were carefully chosen among moderate and balanced Islamic preachers.
On the other hand, the families demanded that the security forces stop torturing their detained relatives in prison. “This will be the best way to persuade them to leave their fundamentalist ideas” one of the families said.
On another level, a source stated that the result of the dialogue established between the authorities and those who returned from Afghanistan was positive and will be announced soon.

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