Ali underlines need for intellectual war against terrorism
Director of the Center for Middle East Studies Abdel
Rahim Ali underlined at CEMO breakfast in French capital Paris the importance
of staging an intellectual war on terrorism.
He underscored the need for countering scholars who
appear on TV and propagate wrong ideas about the Islamic religion.
The meeting was attended by distinguished elite of
politicians and intelligence officials in the Department of Counterterrorism at
the Elysee Palace, John Francois Jiro: the general co-ordinator of the French
intelligence in Elysee.
Among the attendees, Bernard Bennett, who posed
several questions to Dr. Abdel Rahim on the security aspect of combating
terrorism in Egypt and France.
The seminar
was also attended by Professor Terry lentez, Professor of war history at the
Sorbone, who doubles as the general director of Napoleon Foundation, who
delivered a keynote speech on the negative role of major newspapers in France
in supporting the Muslim Brotherhood directly or indirectly.
Christanian
Jarnboulti, Editor-in-chief of “intelligence Afrique, talks about intelligence
cooperation and the importance of winning the battle of ideas.
Pierre Bertello, senior researcher and director of
the Strategic Studies Center.
French Journalist Celin lousateau, responsible for
the Middle East in the magazine Observateur and Michel Naguib Sidham,
researcher in the history of the French campaign on Egypt and the former editor
of Le Monde were also among the attendees.
