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Minniti meets World Muslim League chief

22 settembre 2017 | 12.45
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Italy's interior ministry in Rome
Italy's interior ministry in Rome

Italy's interior minister Marco Minniti on Friday met the Muslim World League's secretary general Mohammed Abdul Karim al-Issa, the interior ministry said in a statement.

"The importance of giving high priority to inter-faith dialogue was underlined during the meeting, which took place in a friendly and extremely positive atmosphere," said the statement.

The MWL chief on Wednesday had an audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican, where he reportedly told the pontiff the Muslim world appreciates his "fair" rejection of a direct link between Islam to extremism and violence.

Issa gave Francis a religious symbol representing Islamic civilization and its communication with other civilisations, while the pope gifted Issa a memorial pen marking the 500th anniversary of St Peter’s Basilica in 2006, and a medal commemorating his fifth year as head of the Catholic church.

Issa was due to meet senior Vatican and Italian officials in Rome this week, and to attend several religious and cultural functions.

Issa spoke on Tuesday at an international conference in Rome on 'Tolerance in Islam' along with Joseph Levi, former chief rabbi of Florence, and Bishop Miguel Angel Ayuso Guixot, secretary of the Vatican's inter-faith dialogue body.

The Saudi Arabian government-supported MWL, once seen as a promoter of the radical Wahhabism ideology, is an NGO founded in 1962 whose stated aim is to propagate Islam and to improve worldwide understanding of the religion.

Headquartered in the Saudi city of Mecca, the MWL promotes Islamic (Sharia) law and in its mission statement says it rejects violence and fosters "dialogue with people of other cultures".

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