MUSLIM WORLD LEAGUE (MWL)
* Islamic NGO based in Saudi Arabia that advances Wahhabi extremism
* Organization's Pakistan office employed al Qaeda operatives
* Oversaw Rabita Trust, a charity that knowingly funded terrorist
groups
* Oversees the World Assembly of Muslim Youth, which teaches religious
hatred to Islamic children
* Enjoys observer status in the United Nations
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Founded in 1962 by Islamic representatives from 22 countries, the Muslim
World League (MWL), also called Rabita, is an Islamic non-governmental
organization based in Saudi Arabia and controlled and funded
<http://64.233.167.104/custom?q=cache:AiWUvWtgPJYJ:judiciary.senate.gov/test
imony.cfm%3Fid%3D827%26wit_id%3D2355+%22world+muslim+league%22&hl=en&ct=clnk
&cd=6&gl=us> by the Saudi government. Its objectives
<http://www.mosque.ch/view.asp?pageID=110> are "to disseminate Islamic
Dawah and expound the teachings of Islam," and "to defend Islamic causes in
a manner that safeguards the interests and aspirations of Muslims, solves
their problems, refutes false allegations against Islam, and repels inimical
trends and dogma which the enemies of Islam seek to exploit in order to
destroy the unity of Muslims and to sow seeds of doubt in our Muslim
brethren." All MWL leaders are of Saudi descent, and the organization's
current Secretary General is Dr. Abdullah Al-Turki.
MWL promotes
<http://jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369686>
Wahhabism, the extremist form of Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia. In the
1980s, the League's Pakistan office was run by Mohammed
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2253> Jamal
Khalifa, a senior member of the Muslim
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6386> Brotherhood
and brother-in-law of Osama
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=690> bin
Laden. Khalifa was the co-founder of the Benevolence
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6416>
International Foundation and he helped
<http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?warning_signs:_specific_cas
es=bojinka&timeline=complete_911_timeline> to finance Operation Bojinka, a
foiled 1995 plot that would have simultaneously detonated bombs aboard
eleven U.S.-bound airliners, blowing them up in mid-flight over the Pacific
Ocean and the South China Sea.
In
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addition, two members of an al Qaeda sleeper cell based in Boston worked at
MWL's Pakistan office. One worker, Nabil al-Marabh, number 27 on the FBI's
list of wanted terrorists, was arrested by federal agents in Detroit shortly
after 9/11; it was
<http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/06/27/fbi_probes_sleeper_cel
l_possibility?pg=full> reported that he "intended to martyr himself in an
attack against the United States." The other operative, Raed Hijazi, was
apprehended and tried in Jordan on charges that he
<http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/06/27/fbi_probes_sleeper_cel
l_possibility?pg=full> planned to blow up a hotel filled with Americans and
Israelis on New Year's Eve in 2000.
In his book The Two Faces of Islam, Stephen Schwartz reports: "In 2000, the
Muslim World League (a provider of funds to Osama bin Laden) hosted 100
prominent American Islamic personalities on hajj [a pilgrimmage to Mecca].
They were accompanied by a delegation of 60 Latin American 'academics and
specialists.' All expenses for the latter were paid by Prince Bandar, Saudi
ambassador to the United States."
MWL at one time oversaw Rabita
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6411> Trust, a
now-defunct charity whose professed purpose was to give aid to Afghani
refugees in Pakistan. The Trust came under investigation by the U.S. Senate
Finance Committee based on evidence that it had knowingly funded terrorist
groups.
Today MWL oversees the World
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6425> Assembly of
Muslim Youth (WAMY), one of the vehicles through which the Saudi government
finances Islamic extremism and international terrorism.
In January 2006, MWL called
<http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=163103
7&Language=en> for United
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7147> Nations
Secretary General Kofi
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=796> Annan
to denounce a derisive cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed that had recently
appeared in Danish and Norwegian newspapers. A letter sent by MWL Secretary
General Al-Turki to Annan noted that Muslims around the world were offended
by the cartoon and that international laws "prohibited scorning religions
and other hatred-provoking practices."
MWL is an observer member of the Organization of Islamic Conferences, an
inter-governmental coalition dedicated to "liberating Jerusalem and
<http://www.oic-oci.org/> Al-Aqsa from Zionist occupation." MWL also has
"Category A" observer status in the United
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7147> Nations,
and consultative status in the UN Economic and Social Council. Moreover, MWL
is a member of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) and the UN
<http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6589>
International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF). The League is also a
founding member of the International Supreme Council for Dawah and Relief,
an Islamic recruiting center based in Cairo.
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