Leaders attending the 22-nation Arab summit on Monday (July 25th) blasted extremist groups in the Middle East and around the world for using the name of Islam to justify their bloody agendas, AFP reported.
Opening the talks, Egyptian prime minister Sherif Ismail called for "an Arab strategy of struggle against terrorism".
"We must recast the religious language that terrorist elements exploit to their own ends to sow terror, death and destruction," he said.
Terrorists were deflecting Islam's message of peace, he added.
Mauritania's head of state Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who is hosting the summit, also slammed the "blind violence of terrorists" that feeds instability in the Arab world.
Arab nations endorsed the idea of an anti-terror force at their last summit in March 2015 in Egypt but have since failed to agree on setting it up.
