COTABATO CITY: The three-day Ulama Summit Against Terrorism has made a declaration that Islam is a religion of peace and should be used to counter terrorism and extremism as well.

Sheikh Abdulrahman “Abu Hurayra” Udasan, mufti (jurist) of the Darul-Ifta (House of Opinions) of the Bangsamoro, said “there should be a distinction between the normative teaching on Islam that is based on the glorious Qur’an and the cultural practices of the Muslims which may or may not be consistent with the normative teaching of Islam.”