Chinese envoy calls for curbing online spread of religious extremist ideologies
Source: Xinhua | 2016-05-07 07:02:34 | Editor: huaxia
UNITED NATIONS, May 6 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese envoy to the United Nations called on Friday for reinforcing regulations of the cyber space and combating the use of the internet and social media to disseminate ideas of religious extremism.
The spread of religious extremism ideologies should be firmly curbed as they are "the ideological foundation of violent extremism," said Wu Haitao, China's deputy permanent representative to the UN, at UN General Assembly's High-level Conversation on Religions for Peace.
Noting that "violent extremism and terrorism are global threats," the envoy called on the international community to apply the same standards consistently worldwide and to treat violent extremism and terrorism with zero tolerance and without differentiation.
"When we combat violent extremism, we must refrain from associating it with a particular faith or ethnicity," Wu added.
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