Minhaj-ul-Quran International (MQI) (Urdu: منہاج القرآن انٹرنیشنل) is a global non-governmental organization (NGO) founded by Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri [1][2] in 1980 in Lahore, Pakistan.

[11] Minhaj-ul-Quran UK organised a three-day anti-terrorism camp at Warwick University to tackle extremist ideology with expected attendance of over 1,000 young Muslims.

The conference had messages of support from Prime Minister David Cameron, Deputy PM Nick Clegg, opposition leader Ed Miliband, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.

[15] Youngsters from Wimbledon Chedar and MQI Mosque teamed up in their Jewish-Muslim interfaith initiative to make a Challah for homeless people and conduct a workshop.

The workshop was attended by more than a thousand Muslim families from the UK and Europe and featured a keynote address by Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, the founder of MQI.

Dr. Qadri spoke on the topics of peace, dialogue, and Islamic teachings and announced his translation of the Quran and the launch of the Minhaj Encyclopedia search engine.

[19] In 2003 about 130 Danish Pakistanis canceled their memberships in Minhaj-ul-Quran in a mass protest against what they described as a closed and undemocratic organization run as a one-man-show by Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri.

[27] In 2000 the Oslo department deposed its imam Syed Ikram Jillani on the grounds that the board asserted his teachings were contrary to that of Tahir ul-Qadris.

Leader of Minhaj Ungdom, Faiz Alam, justified the dismissal by pointing out that the congregation is following the philosophy of its religious head Tahir ul-Qadri in Pakistan, using his books and videos, and cannot accept that an imam runs a different scheme.

[28] Making use of undercover journalism newspaper Dagens Næringsliv in October 2004 revealed how Minhaj-ul-Quran in Oslo will assist Pakistani Norwegian parents looking to send their children off to Quranic schools in Pakistan in order to rid them of what they perceive to be excessive influence from the modern Western environment they live in.

The president of Minhaj-ul-Quran Oslo, who otherwise speaks the importance of integration and active participation in Norwegian society, showed willing to provide a place among a selection of Quranic schools he recommended.

[40][41][42] The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has formally recognised and granted a 'Special Consultative Status' to Minhaj-ul-Quran International for its work.

[43] In September 2011, Minhaj-ul-Quran organised a major "Peace for Humanity" conference at Wembley Arena in London at which, under the auspices of Tahir-ul-Qadri, its 12,000 attendees announced a global declaration denouncing racism, interfaith intolerance, extremism and terrorism.

[48] The Declaration adds: "The indiscriminate nature of terrorism, which has in recent years killed far more civilians and other non-combatants than it has combatants, is un-Islamic, un-Judaic, un-Christian and it is indeed incompatible with the true teachings of all faiths".