CAIRO, Dec 3 (AFP) - A Saudi-sponsored academics' organization called for standardized religious guidelines
Thursday to govern the use of the Internet in the Islamic world. Following a meeting here this week, the League
of Islamic Universities recommended "unifying the fatwas (religious rulings) issued on the use of the Internet in
order to avoid contradictory viewpoints on the subject."
The meeting, which was attended by representatives from 12 Arab and Islamic countries, said it favored a
"better use of the Internet to give a better image of Islam and Moslems," according to a final statement received
by AFP. The league also said it was necessary to "promote news agencies interested in news on the Islamic
world to immunize the young against anti-Islamic propaganda by other media." The conference was attended
by Sheikh Mohammad Sayed Tantawi, head of Cairo's Al-Azhar University, the Sunni Moslem world's most
prestigious centre of religious instruction, and Saudi Religious Endowments Minister Abdallah ibn Abdel
Mohsen al-Turki.
Saudi Arabia sponsored the league's creation in 1969. It was based in Morocco until 1996 when it moved to its
current base here.
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