Two dangers are facing our world today: the first is the obvious threat of terrorism; which all people have agreed on to confront, and the second, which is no less serious; that is the risk of the escalating hatred discourse, based on the exclusion and discrimination behaviors, that classifies people according to their religion, gender or color.

We need to admit that the Religious Fanaticism is the main cause of the conflicts facing our world today, among other factors, to erroneous understanding of the religious purposes and God’s supreme objectives of creation, and use this mis-conceptualization to support an authoritarian outlook supported by nationalism and religious hatred practices, which have generated those extremist models that fuel hatred speech and reject the dialogue’s culture and peaceful coexistence.

The Doha international Center for Interfaith Dialogue has so often called on for, through its conferences, to adopt an effective strategy to counter this phenomenon through religious and moral values and legal means, as the desired stability depends on the extent efforts at the individual and institutional level to consolidate the beliefs of peace and tolerance.

We believe that the only way to combat the hatred discourse is by eradicating its roots, and adopting the intellectual debate to detect the inherent mistake of the appeals for
sectarianism and racism and the rejection of the others.

Hence, the 14th Doha International Conference for Interfaith Dialogue will discuss the theme ” Religions and Hate Speech… Scriptures and Practice”.