Here’s a crazy idea, stop blowing people up.

Via Gulf News:

Islam is a religion of peace and it is the duty of Islamic scholars and thinkers to spread its original teachings in the face of extremists who are using the religion for their own violent goals, experts said at a major peace forum on Tuesday.

Some of Islam’s top scholars gathered in Abu Dhabi for the second annual Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies held under the patronage of Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs. The aim of the three-day forum is to come up with solutions to dispel misconceptions of Islam as well as extremist interpretations of the faith.

Speaking to delegates and audience members, Shaikh Abdullah Bin Bayyah, President of the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies, stressed that Islam at its core is a religion of peace and moderation.

“I am afraid that if I talk about peace like last year, people will be saying what peace are you talking about, but mercy and peace are inside Islam, and not outside of it. We are here [at this forum] to show that we are together, and we are united, and we are looking for goals and strategies to get us out of the darkness and into the light. People find it difficult to believe that Islam is a religion of peace, but we have to continue what we’re doing to establish the foundation and the renewal of this discourse.”