The Muslim World League signed on Tuesday a research and data sharing agreement with the Mohammadian League of Scholars in Morocco.
Sharing of data will aid in the publishing of enlightened Islamic discourse in the face of extremist ideology and slogans of classification and exclusion.
The agreement between the two organizations was signed during a visit by MWL Chief Mohammed bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa to the league’s Rabat headquarters, where he met with Ahmed Al-Abadi, the organization’s leader.
Other than exchanging information, the agreement includes conducting joint scientific research and publishing initiatives, and engaging in conferences, panel discussions, cultural programs, and joint training programs and workshops.
A committee from both organizations will decide on an annual executive program to identify joint projects.
The agreement follows an international conference hosted by MWL with the Mohammadian League of Scholars under the theme “Deconstruction of Extremist Discourse.”
Leading thinkers and researchers from Saudi Arabia, Morocco, the UAE, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria took part in the two-day conference early this month in Rabat.
The conference discussed interventions on deconstructing the extremist discourse, the intellectual ideas of extremists and their rebuttal, sectarian extremism and strategies to prevent the spread of extremism.
Earlier, the MWL Chief said that cultural communication generates understanding among nations … and this leads to the alliance of civilizations.
He said extremism was a general and comprehensive concept, and to attribute it only to Islam was false since it also had intellectual, political and racial aspects.
Optimizing the level of organized institutional work, the agreement approved forming of a follow-up committee from both parties to establish an annual executive program which covers projects, fields of cooperation and mutual benefit between parties.
