Australian Imams and scholars have launched a new manual to debunk misconceptions associated with Islam.<\/p>\n
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Australian Imams and scholars have launched a new manual to debunk misconceptions associated with Islam.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not only important to break down barriers and misconceptions, but also for young Australian Muslims to gain a better understanding of the teachings of Islam from a scholarly source, rather than an unknown and unreliable internet source,\u201d Hass Dellal, Executive Director of the Australian Multicultural Foundation (AMF), said, SBS reported.<\/p>\n
The 12-page manual is titled \u201cAn Introductory Resource Manual: Islam and Living in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n
The manual was launched by the Board of Imams Victoria to help young Australian Muslims who turn to the internet to learn about their faith.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of youth, when they want to understand something about Islam, the easiest way to get that information is to jump online,\u201d Imam Bekim Hasani told SBS News.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut sometimes the information that they get, they get from people who we know nothing about and we do not know if they are qualified to give that information.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the 2016 Australian Census, the number of Muslims in Australia constituted 604,200 people, or 2.6% of the total Australian population, an increase of over 15% of its previous population share of 2.2% reported in the previous census 5 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Australian Imams and scholars have launched a new manual to debunk misconceptions associated with Islam. Australian Imams and scholars have launched a new manual to debunk misconceptions associated with Islam. \u201cIt is not only important to break down barriers and misconceptions, but also for young Australian Muslims to gain a better understanding of the teachings …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[50,100],"class_list":["post-8205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-australia","tag-islam"],"yoast_head":"\n