KABUL - MP Abdul Hafiz Mansour said the spread of extremism at a number of universities and mosques is challenging Afghanistan's security.
Addressing a gathering at a private university in Kabul, Mansour said a number of extremist Muslims have been changed into a machine that produces infidels.
"Who has allowed you to judge and write on your facebook that this is infidel and that is. How many people are you inviting to Islam every day while you are making infidels of hundred of others? You have been changed into an infidel making machine," he said.
He said opposing views among Muslims is natural but that no one has the right to call someone infidel.
"The culture of Islam [a subject at universities] should be reformed, should be completed. Experts should reform it. I am a teacher of this subject. I know dozens of other teachers who are complaining about this subject and believe that it should be reformed," he added.
Meanwhile, a number of students who attended the ceremony said they agree with the MP.
"I have a number of friends who are also university students. When I discuss with them, they are supporting Taliban," said Khatera, a university student.
Another student, Ali Rahman Rahmatyar, said: "A number of religious scholars even refuse to attend the funeral ceremony of security forces."
At the same event, a number of religious scholars said the subject of the culture of Islam at universities should be reformed.
"The culture of Islam subject should be reviewed. The issues which were added to this subject one or two decades ago are not helping to address and answer the problems of today's society," said Abdulhaq Habibi, a university lecturer.
However, a Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs official said they believe that religious extremism is a foreign phenomenon.
"The ideology of extremism in others countries, particularly in Pakistan, is operative seriously. There are different ideologies in Pakistan. And they would try to inject it in Afghanistan," said Daee-ul-Haq Abid, deputy minister of hajj and religious affairs. (Tolonews)