Muslim World League
[10] The League says that they reject all acts of violence and promote dialogue with the people of other cultures, within their understanding of Sharia, but they are no strangers to controversy, having been the subject of several ongoing counterterrorism investigations in the U.S. related to Hamas, al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.
[11] In its 2019 Country Reports on Terrorism, the U.S. State Department stated that the Muslim World League's Secretary General, al-Isa "pressed a message of interfaith dialogue, religious tolerance, and peaceful coexistence with global religious authorities, including Muslim imams outside the Arab world," as well as conducted extensive outreach to prominent U.S. Jewish and Christian leaders.
[13][14][15][16] The Muslim World League was founded in accordance with a resolution adopted during the meeting of the General Islamic Conference which was held in Makkah on the 14th of Dhul Hijjah 1381 Hijra, corresponding to 18 May 1962.
"[22] According to the Muslim World League's website, the organization places significant emphasis on civilizational rapprochement through constructive dialogue and engagement.
[27] The Charter of Makkah, signed during a historic gathering of more than 1,200 Islamic scholars, Imams and leaders from 139 countries, consists of 30 unique principle points that call for the world to combat extremism and hatred, fight against injustice and oppression, and reject violations of human rights in all its forms.
The WSCM was founded in compliance with a resolution adopted by the "Message of the Mosque" conference, which was held in Holy Makkah during the month of Ramadan 1395 (September 1975) under the auspices of the Muslim World League.
Founded in 1978 in Saudi Arabia as the International Islamic Relief Organization, it provides aid to Muslim and non-Muslim communities in need around the world.
[36] In 2019, the International Organization for Relief, Welfare and Development completed the League Boreholes Project in Ghana to provide clean drinking water to several communities.
[45] Under Secretary General al-Isa, the MWL frequently participates in and hosts international events, in addition to playing an active role in humanitarian aid projects around the world.
[46] Conducted under the patronage and in the presence of the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, and in collaboration with the OIC, the conference focused on building a consensus among noted religious scholars from various Islamic schools of thought and sects regarding the right to education for Muslim girls.
[49][50] The event was also attended by Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai, who travelled to Pakistan to support an unprecedented coalition of traditional Muslim faith leadership, civil and humanitarian agencies, and human rights associations.
The gathering was attended by noted religious, and civil society leaders, including Dr Salim M AlMalik, Director-General (DG) of the Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO), Archbishop of Rabat Cardinal Cristóbal López Romero, Chair holder of the UNESCO Chair on Religious Pluralism and Peace Prof Alberto Melloni, the Grand Mufti of Egypt Muhammad Mukhtar Gomaa, and Executive Director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue, Georgetown University Prof Katherine Marshall.
The conference concluded with issuance of the "Charter of Faith in a Changing World," which emphasizes that religious and intellectual beliefs vary in their understanding of believing in God, but there was, however, was a consensus to collaborate in confronting nihilistic and atheistic ideologies.
[60] It also discussed the importance of religion in promoting world peace, consolidating solidarity among peoples, and exploring ways of civilizational cooperation, in addition to launching initiatives emanating from the Charter of Makkah as well as highlighting noble religious values.
In March 2024, the Muslim World League (MWL) organized a conference in Makkah aimed at enhancing understanding and unity among different Islamic schools of thought and sects.
The conference issued the Charter of Building Bridges between Islamic Schools of Thought and Sects in which the scholars emphasized the need for unity among Muslims and the duty to remember the concept of one nation.
[65] Founded by the MWL and the Nahdlatul Ulama, the R20 platform was adopted as the first official engagement group on religion in the G20, making the R20 Summit the first religious gathering of its kind.
The two-day event brought together more than 400 participants, including 160 inter-religious figures from 20 of the world's largest economies, to discuss contemporary global challenges and the role religious leaders needed to play to address them.
The forum underscored that attempts to gain religious, cultural, political and economic advantages without respect for rights or ethics, and through forms of extremism, arrogance and racism, must be opposed.
[68] In June 2021, the Muslim World League spearheaded a meeting of religious and political leadership from Afghanistan and Pakistan in the holy city of Makkah that devised a roadmap for attaining lasting peace in the war-torn country.
[69] The conference led to the signing of an accord that defined religious parameters to achieve a just and comprehensive peace and reconciliation process in Afghanistan in line with Islamic principles.
[73] Al-Isa also visited the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Nozyk Synagogue, the only surviving prewar Jewish house of prayer in Warsaw.
[83] Leaders from business, finance, religion, politics, media, and the environment participated in high-level workshops in an effort to solve some of the world's greatest challenges.
[84] The five solution sessions addressed: Restoring Civility to Public Discourse; Economic Inequality; Safeguarding Our Planet; Uniting the Faithful; and Ensuring Gender Equality.
The GIC has met on several occasions so far as follows: In 1974, the League declared that Ahmadis and related groups are out of the fold of Islam, banned from the Holy lands and should be boycotted socially, economically and culturally [87] In 2015, Abd Allah al-Turki spoke on behalf of the speakers at the conference and commenting on the violence caused by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, he said: "The terrorism that we face within the Muslim Ummah and our own homelands today … is religiously motivated.
"[88] The MWL has a number of regionally based Islamic cultural centres that oversee the certification of halal meat products in various countries around the world.
In 1988, the Muslim World League (together with Al Falah and Heed International) came forward and established pucca houses for the Stranded Pakistanis in Bangladesh.
The organizations were left off the list of groups sanctioned by the United States last week, U.S. officials hinted to NEWSWEEK, in order to avoid embarrassing the Saudi government.
