By TCN News,
Lucknow: The Centre for Harmony & Peace, Varanasi, and Centre for Study of Society and Secularism, Mumbai jointly organized a two-day workshop on 13 and 14 June in Lucknow on the present condition of Muslims, Problems and Islam. The workshop was attended by Muslim scholars, writers, madrasa teachers and Ulema.
Topics discussed at the workshop included educational awareness, social and economic backwardness of Muslims, torture and implication of innocent Muslims in the name of terrorism and low representation of Muslims in govt jobs. The workshop also discussed the spread of deliberate misunderstandings about Islam.
Eminent speakers who addressed the workshop included Islamic scholar and writer Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer, Shia spiritual leader Kalbe Sadique, Maulana Hifzur Rahman Nadwi, Mufti Abu Irfan Firangimahli and Dr. Mohammad Arif, chairman of Centre for Harmony & Peace, Varanasi.