[5] According to the "Knowledge Exchange Program", "the Commission on Scientific Signs of the Qur’an and Sunnah" was founded in 1404 AH (1983-4 CE) "in response to a resolution issued by the World Supreme Council of Mosques.
[8] The first, held in Islamabad in 1987, was attended by "200 Muslim delegates from all over the world" and funded "by the Pakistani state to the tune of a couple of million dollars.
[10] One of the highlights at the Eighth International Conference in Kuwait was the announcement of a possible cure for AIDS based on "a herbal extract that was prescribed in the Prophetic Sunnah for the treatment of other ailments.
[7] In 1984, a member of the commission, Mustafa Abdul Basit Ahmed, moved to the United States to recruit non-Muslim Western scientists to verify the miraculous signs of the Quran.
However, in a 2002 story[7] in the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal, several non-Muslim scientists spoke of questionable practices used by the commission to coax statements from them, such as hard-sell interviews by Sheikh Abdul Majeed al-Zindani, and promises to be “completely neutral” that were not kept.