Under the supervision of the respected Dean of the College of Pharmacy, Assistant Professor Dr. Asaad Hassan Al-Zaidi
The College of Pharmacy held a seminar entitled Extremism in Religion, Its Causes, Effects and Treatment Presented by Assistant Professor Dr. Ahmed Rahim Farhoud, Head of the Human Rights Unit.
The seminar aims to introduce students to religious extremism and the position of Islamic law on religious extremists, as well as to identify the manifestations of extremism in religion. It also clarified the causes of extremism in religion, including intellectual, cultural, political and economic causes, as well as psychological causes that lead to the commission of crimes of various kinds. The seminar also touched on treatments for extremism by reforming the doctrinal and intellectual aspect, as well as spreading Islamic knowledge and taking it from sheikhs and scholars, in addition to increasing seminars and conferences that address extremism and encouraging universities to prepare university theses, books and research to address extremism.