Emir Abdelkader's Thought To Counter Extremism In USA

An American institution in the state of Iowa used the idea of ​​Emir Abdelkader to spread a culture of coexistence and fight extremism that is sweeping several countries in the name of the Islamic religion.

American Al Hurra TV channel’s website, quoted the Head of the Abdelkader Foundation for Education in Alkader, Iowa, Kathy Garms, as saying that she launched a competition for students this year on the issue of “extremism” in order to prepare them for deeper discussions in the future about how they can understand the real Islam that was adopted by Emir Abdelkader.

According to Kathy Garms, “all the decisions that were taken by Emir Abdelkader in his life were derived from the Islamic religion, but they were far from killing that was practiced by militant groups in many places of the world”.

“Everyone should know that the Emir Abdelkader was not like those who are now killing in the name of Islam”.

“If Abdelkader was among us, he would not allow what is happening. The morals that he had and practiced throughout his life have nothing to do with what these people are doing today.”

According to this researcher, the manner in which Abdelkader dealt with the French prisoners confirms that he enacted laws that protected prisoners of war in 1837, I.e a few years before the Geneva Convention was passed in 1864″.

According to this researcher, the manner in which Abdelkader dealt with the French prisoners confirms that he enacted laws protecting prisoners of war in 1837, I.e a few years before the Geneva Convention was passed in 1864.

It is noteworthy that this city (Elkader) in Iowa derives from the name of Emir Adbelkader in admiration of his heroism against French colonialism.

In 1846, Timothy Davis, John Thompson and Sieg Chester, who founded a small town in Clayton County, Iowa, named their city Elkader, in reference to the young Emir Abdelkader, who was then leading his people to resist the French colonizer.