UNITED NATIONS, Shawwal 17, Sept 26, SPA -- Hostility between western countries and Muslim ones, helps extremists, Egypt and Mauritania briefed the U.N. General Assembly on Saturday. In an address at the Assembly in New York, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abdoul Gheit said many Muslims feel a lack of tolerance toward their religion in some western countries. "We find the West, in general, being drawn into a clash with the Muslim world," Gheit said. "This clash will serve no one except extremists. It will not be in the interest of security and stability of the world." In another address at the Assembly, Mauritania's Prime Minister Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf said his country is fighting terrorism and extremism. Mauritanian scholars always affirm that Islam is a religion of "tolerance, virtue and acceptance of others," he noted, according to a report of the United Press International. --SPA 11:11 LOCAL TIME 08:11 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/820628