Senegal’s president criticizes religious extremism
August 11, 2015
Senegalese President Macky Sall, a Muslim, spoke out against religious extremism at a recent conference on Islam and peace in which both Muslim and Catholic leaders took part.
In recent years, Islamic extremism has been on the rise in neighboring Mali and in Niger, another French-speaking nation in West Africa.
Senegal’s leading prelate, Archbishop Benjamin Ndiaye of Dakar, agreed with Sall that “religious diversity should be a font of wealth,” according to a report by the Italian news agency SIR.
“Senegalese Islam has always remained more moderate,” added Father Pierre Diatta, who nonetheless expressed concern about the possibility that “some radical ideology will spread even among the Senegalese.”
The nation of 14.1 million is 5% Catholic.
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