The Maldivian National University (MNU) is hosting a lecture tonight on Democracy in Islam with Syrian-born scholar Imam Mohamed Bashar Arafat.
After having served as an Imam in Damascus, Syria as well as in the United States, Dr Arafat founded the Civilization Exchange and Cooperation Foundation aimed at promoting better understandings of Islam around the world.
This lecture is the last in a series of small workshops, which have been held across the country in association with schools, government offices, and NGOs, to promote a more moderate understanding of Islamic values and precepts. This lecture is being held in the wake of a popular Maldivian Scholar having given a sermon on how democracy and Islam are completely incompatible.
The lecture will be hosted at the MNU Auditorium in the campus building next to Billabong School at 8:00PM.