President’s Weekly Radio Address: " Maldivians have continually Adopted a Conventional approach to living life in the path of Moderation and Minimalism"

President Mohamed Nasheed has said that Maldivians have continually adopted a conventional approach to living life in the path of moderation and minimalism. The President made this statement while speaking in his weekly radio address delivered this morning, in clear reference to all the religious protestors voicing their concerns in the name of protecting Islam.

In his speech, the President noted that several unattributable sources have now begun to spread diverse hearsay with regard to certain Islamic laws, and that immediate attention needs to be given to the specific differentiation of accurate Islamic laws from such unconfirmed general assumptions.

Speaking in this regard, the President revealed his likely intention of appealing to all the religious scholars and legal experts in the nation in a written attempt to seek their respective views and relevant guidance on national criminological practices. He also stressed on the urgent need to address certain other issues such as those concerning the permissibility of music as a form of entertainment in Islam, medical vaccination as part of disease prevention and portrait photography as a field of applied arts.

Speaking on the protest scheduled to be held today, the President reconfirmed his intended participation in the demonstration led by the Ruling Party – MDP, in a plain attempt to express his support for moderation in the practice of Islam in the Maldives.