In an article he authored for pan-Arab daily Asharq Al Awsat, UAE Minister of Information and Culture Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed said that the roots of the terror that brought about the September 11 attacks in the USA could only be rooted out by changing the political climate and the economic situation in the Arab-Islamic world.
Sheikh Abdullah said that the September 11 attacks “harmed Arabs and Muslims no less than it harmed the United States”, reported the Khaleej Times, and pointed out that it could not be rooted out by military action alone.
“We cannot speak of stamping out extremism without revising the educational system and without rethinking our political state of affairs and economic problems” Sheikh Abdullah wrote. He explained that extremism is a product of these political and economic factors, and that terror will decline in a political climate that provides greater freedom, a better standard of living and advanced methods of education. (www.albawaba.com)
