MWL urges Muslims to heed king’s call

The Muslim World League (MWL) has called on leaders and scholars of Muslim communities to pay attention to the recent call made by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah to counter challenges posed by sedition and other negative ideologies.
King Abdullah said in his Eid Al-Fitr message to Muslims across the world that they should remain steadfast against the callers for sedition, misguidance and deviation who seek to defame Islam. The king also called on Muslims to find ways to end the tragic situation in which the Muslim Ummah is caught now.
“The king has identified the causes of cultural regression of the Muslim Ummah. The causes are primarily the Ummah’s aloofness from the true faith and tarnishing the religious principles and falsifying its objectives. The causes also include internal disputes and divisions apart from ideological deviations presented under other guises. True Islam has nothing to do with extremism and terror,” MWL Secretary General Abdullah Al-Turki said in a statement on Thursday. 
He said the king also issued a strong warning against the dangers involved in deviant ideologies spawned by some corrupt people. The king outlined in his Eid message a way-out of the crisis for the Ummah. “It is by self-reform accompanied by their agreement on right views with focus on the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of the Prophet (peace be upon him),” he said, adding that advocates of sedition and misguidance should be tackled with determination.
The king reminded Muslims that the Islamic civilization, which inspired human development and creativity in the past, should serve as the driving force for present-day Muslims to “lead the world from the depths of oppression and ignorance to the light of truth and equality, raising the banner of tolerance and coexistence,” Al-Turki said. 
“It is with this aim that the MWL and others have been organizing conferences and seminars of dialogue in line with the king’s initiative,” Al-Turki said in his statement.
That is why the king reiterated the need for energizing the activities of the international center for counter terrorism, Al-Turki said.
Al-Turki also called on official and private Muslim organizations to collaborate with the MWL on working out a road map to liberate the Ummah from its present woes and stop its bloodshed by removing the causes of disputes.