More than 450 scholars, religious leaders, diplomats and researchers from more than 50 countries are taking part in the five-day forum, held across Tashkent, Samarkand and Termez.

Organised by the Centre of Islamic Civilisation in Uzbekistan, the event focuses on the contribution of Islamic civilisation to science, education and intellectual life, as well as new forms of international academic cooperation.

In a message delivered at the opening ceremony, Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said the world was going through a period of deep transformation marked by conflict, mistrust, extremism and Islamophobia.

He said science, education, culture and shared moral values remain essential foundations for peace, dialogue and sustainable development.

“The main purpose of this forum is to once again demonstrate the contribution of Muslim scholars to world civilisation and to show that Islam has always called for knowledge, education and humanism,” Rustam Jabborov, Scientific Secretary of the Centre of Islamic Civilisation in Uzbekistan, told Euronews. “Associating Islam with violence or extremism contradicts its true nature.”

Resist Comment.  It's difficult to see what world these people are living in.  islam is assocatiated with violence, because muslims are violent people.  For example: the satanic attacks by muslims on Israel in October 2023;  the continuing attacks by muslims in Europe; the continuing rape of under-aged girls in the UK.

Again, islamic extremism.  How do muslims explain the existence of ISIS, the Taliban, the Theocracy in iran, the muslim brotherhood?  Are these not purveyors of extremism?  Or maybe, in the islamic world, this is nornal behaviour.

VIOLENCE AND EXTREMISM IS THE TRUE NATURE OF ISLAM.