Saturday, 24 December 2011
Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed has rejected opposition demands calling for a stricter version of Islamic law be applied across the island nation. (File photo)
Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed has called for a “tolerant” form of Islam, his office said Saturday, amid opposition calls to usher in strict Islamic law for the island nation.
Nasheed urged the country of 330,000 Sunni Muslims, to reject religious extremism and support the “traditional form” of Islam that has been practiced in the Maldives for the past 800 years.
“I asked you to come here in support of the middle, tolerant path,” he said, addressing ruling party supporters on Friday.
Nasheed said moderate Islam was vi
Nasheed urged the country of 330,000 Sunni Muslims, to reject religious extremism and support the “traditional form” of Islam that has been practiced in the Maldives for the past 800 years.
“I asked you to come here in support of the middle, tolerant path,” he said, addressing ruling party supporters on Friday.
Nasheed said moderate Islam was vi
nobody called for any extremism. what the maldivians called president Nasheed is to establish Islamic Sharia. But Nasheed was calling for a new religion he has created as moderate islam.
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