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Article: Muslim World League makes Goodwill visit to New York as part of U.S. tour
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- The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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New York City and Tri-StateNews
The Muslim World League, headquartered in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, is an organization committed to promoting peace and understanding between Islam and other faiths, cultures, and civilizations. This summer the League sent a delegation of distinguished jurists, academics, and clerics from the Arab world, Africa, India, Europe, and North America on a Good Will Visit to the United States. On June 26 the delegation, headed by its secretary-general, Dr. Abdullah al-- Turki, held a press conference at its first stop in New York, at the Inter-Church Center.
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