UAE signs agreement to ensure equality for all religious groups, minorties

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The goal of the forthcoming Abu Dhabi meeting is to include religious leaders from other faiths and religious minorities that live in the Muslim world, such as Yazidis and Ahmadiyyas. 

Times of Ahmad | News Watch | UK Desk
Source/Credit: The National UAE
By Haneen Dajani  | May 19, 2016

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Senior officials from 52 Muslim nations are to meet in Abu Dhabi later this year in a bid by Muslim states to get their own houses in order, demonstrate to the non-Muslim world the moderates’ condemnation of groups such as ISIL and to show that peaceful co-existence can be achieved.

The Marrakesh Declaration on the Rights of Religious Minorities in Predominantly Muslim Majority Communities was established during the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies’ latest session earlier this year.
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The goal of the forthcoming Abu Dhabi meeting is to include religious leaders from other faiths and religious minorities that live in the Muslim world, such as Yazidis and Ahmadiyyas.
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There will also be participation from western communities and experts who signed the declaration as witnesses.
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The declaration will be discussed again at the coming G7 Summit where the seven world leaders, “will be expected to recognise it".
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However, the challenge remains on how effectively it will be implemented.
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