President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, speaking at the four-day meeting titled "Unity in Multiplicity: Rethinking Peace and Wisdom Together" in Istanbul that hosted 125 delegates from 35 Muslim countries, said that ISIS posed a serious threat to the future of the Muslim world. The meeting, which concluded on Friday, was aimed to rebuild unity in the Muslim world and to renew cooperation between Asian and Pacific Muslims. Religious representatives voiced their opinions during interviews with Daily Sabah, arguing that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism and has never given a message that involves killing others.They said Islam was a religion of peace and understanding, even though its portrayal in Western media has led people to associate Islam with terrorism, especially after the rise of ISIS."Islam has no message of killing others. Islam has nothing to do with terrorism. Islam has no place for hatred. Just like our Prophet Muhammad said: 'If you want to present Islam to somebody, you have to be kind and sincere'," said the rector of the International Islamic University of Islamabad Professor Muhammad Masoom Yasinzai.Islamic Religious Affairs Council of Myanmar President Nyunt Maung Shein said that the only way to clear extremism and remove the misperception of Islam is to correct the understanding of Islam's holy book, the Quran, and rebuild solidarity in the Muslim world.Underscoring that Islam has been in a period of chaos for some time now, clerics said how significant it is to create intra-faith dialogue to prevent Islamophobia in Western countries and to unite people against the challenges facing the Islamic world.Delegates, speaking to Daily Sabah, stressed that Islamic countries have to correct themselves first and unite to show the core values of Islam. They said that there are factors influencing the promotion of Islam adversely, such as Islamophobia and the association of Islam with terrorism, but what Muslim countries should do first is to concentrate on education and put Islamic solidarity back on track before blaming others."The very basic thing we have to concentrate on in the Islamic world is sincerity at the leadership level. Second, we have to be relevant to the needs of society, to the challenges of society [...] If we want the Islamic ummah (community) to rise, we must concentrate on education, research and critical thinking to reproduce al-Razis and Rumis," said Yasinzai.Aye Lwen, the president of the Islamic Center of Myanmar, called on all Muslim countries to unite to bring all the problems in the Islamic world to the table and develop a common stance in the face of the chaos that Islam has experienced recently."Islamic education was at its height during the Middle Ages. When the West was in darkness, Islam was shining with scientific discoveries, and today we should revive that spirit," added Lwen.During the four-day summit, Mehmet Görmez, the head of Turkey's Presidency of Religious Affairs (DİB), had bilateral meetings with religious leaders and discussed what problems the Islamic world is encountering and their possible solutions, while exchanging ideas over re-establishing historical ties with Muslim countries and communities in the Asia-Pacific region and opportunities for cooperation in religious education and services. Two-thirds of the Muslim world is in the Asian and Pacific regions.The summit's final declaration issued on Friday pointed to the preservation of unity in multiplicity, "a basic feature of Islam." "Muslims need to an exemplary community in unity and solidarity bonded with basic and common constants regardless of their diversity. This is the only way through which Muslims can eradicate violence and chaos fed by sectarianism and far-fetched interpretations of religion. Islam, as a principle, rejects hatred and enmity and prioritizes peace, justice and rights.Speaking on the last day of the summit, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan also stressed unity as essential to peace for the Muslim world. "Members of a religion that promotes the well-being of people kill each other because of sectarian and ethnic strifes. We are heading toward a gloomy future. Unity and consulting each other is the only way for us to reach a better future. Discussions between ourselves, cleared of prejudice, will be the most valuable instrument for solutions to the problems the Muslim world is facing," he said. The DİB is at the forefront of efforts for Muslim solidarity, especially in the wake of rising Islamophobia, terror attacks and wars in Muslim countries. In the past decade, it has organized several events bringing together Muslim clerics from around the world, including a summit of Eurasian Muslims, the African Countries Religious Leaders Summit, a convention of European Muslims, a meeting of clerics from Balkan countries and a summit of religious leaders in Latin American and Caribbean countries. The presidency aims to discuss cooperation opportunities after a long period of inaction in Islamic world and to exchange experiences on providing religious services addressing Muslims' needs.Rohingya Muslims' situation in Myanmar is getting worseReligious delegates from Myanmar said that there have been no improvements made by the Myanmar government with regard to the situation of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, as conditions worsen by the day."They are trying to depict Islam as a threat to Myanmar's Buddhist nationalism. The condition of Rohingya Muslims is getting worse and worse, as their houses, shops and mosques are demolished, and they are kept in camps, which are in very bad condition. No improvements by the government can be seen in the upcoming period," added the officials."The election [in Myanmar] is approaching. During the last election in 2010, they were allowed to vote, and they had some candidates, but now these candidates were disqualified, and voters do not even have the white cards they had before - a temporary ID card given to those who lack identity documents," underscored the Myanmar representatives.According to the U.N., in the past three years over 120,000 Rohingyas have boarded ships to flee abroad. Some 25,000 migrants left Myanmar and Bangladesh in the first quarter of 2015. Between 40 and 60 percent of the 25,000 are thought to originate from Myanmar's western state of Rakhine. The unrest in Myanmar sparked in 2012 cost many Muslims their lives, and about 140,000 stateless Rohingyas were placed in internal displacement camps due to the increasing violent attacks on them.