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Muslims should be loyal to the country and the land : Egyptian Minister Dr Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa

Abu Dhabi (UAE) – Dr Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa, Egypt’s Minister of Endowments, delivered a speech on the first day of a two-day conference of the World Muslim Communities Council in Abu Dhabi. He said, ‘The concept of a united Muslim world falls under two categories: a rational one, represented by this conference, and an impossible and fictional one exploited by extremist and terrorist groups who endeavour to bring all the world’s Muslims under one flag and in one country. In our modern-day era, it is more important to have loyalty to one’s country and nation, its flag and land, than to seek an impossible unity under a newly created country. This futile endeavour bids to weaken the national state and alienate Muslim minorities living in non-Muslim communities’.

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