Europe must increase its efforts to integrate Muslims and eradicate religious hate speech, Muslim World League (MWL) chief Mohammed al-Issa has declared.
“We believe that European countries, where there is much debate now,
and other countries around the world … need to enhance national
assimilation programmes and criminalise hatred and contempt for
adherents of religions because this threatens the safety of the
community,” he toldReuters in an interview.
Without giving specific details, the wealthy Saudi figure told the
international news agency that the MWL “has programmes and curricula
that enhance national assimilation and which can courageously and
forcefully confront all forms of extremism, as well as special
programmes to thwart efforts to infiltrate the Muslim community”.
Widely regarded
a promoter of the Kingdom’s fundamentalist Wahhabi ideology which
critics allege is the basis for jihadi violence across the globe, the
MWL is very active in nations of Europe which have a large number of
Muslim residents, such as Britain and France.
As well as encouraging followers of Islam to be more religiously
observant and promoting global solidarity among Muslims, the body also
seeks to propagate a conservative brand of the religion and convert
nonbelievers, according to the Pew Research Center.
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