The banditry that hides behind a religious façade (see this column in EUROPE 10768) is denounced and rejected by Muslims themselves, who assert faithfulness and admiration for their true religious culture - of which terrorism is only a deviation. Let me report on the attitude of a well-known Arab intellectual and that of Algeria - a double contribution to mutual understanding between Europe and the Muslim world.
An Arab intellectual gives his opinion. Tahar Ben Jelloun, when taking...