Dear Mr President Barack Hussein Obama,

I write to express our deep concern that the denigrating film has driven the peace-loving Muslim masses into yet another threat of extremism and terrorism. It has posed them a grave challenge they have to face, following the concerns and distress it has wreaked. It is history that no people tolerate defamation of their political or national leaders leave alone the denigration of the exalted Prophet of Muslims with over 1.5 billion followers in the world. The Prophet is the honour of the community which no people can compromise. Produced and directed by Nakoula Bassely Nakoula and promoted by the pastor, Terry Jones, the hatred film has hurt the sentiments of billions of Muslims, stoked the fire of hatred and sparked worldwide protests. It is downright conspiracy against the world peace in general and the Muslims of the world in particular to portray the peaceful Muslims as a violent and extremist community. Our failure to address this situation has allowed it to spread all over the world, with no end in sight. This situation has been unnecessarily allowed to spiral out of control and has threatened the concept of peaceful co-existence. If not addressed, it can lead to a potential clash of not only civilizations but religions and societies as well. Particularly, in war against extremism and terrorism, all the nations of the world stand united, bringing the societies and religions of the world closer to each other and reducing the gaps to the minimum. We strongly believe that the day is not far when the plague will be eliminated and the humanity will inhabit the planet with serenity, tranquillity and unity.

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Association of Muslims of North America (AMNA) and Minhaj-ul-Quran International USA hosted a grand Peace for Humanity and Mawlid-un-Nabi (PBUH) conference at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in New York on June 3, 2012. The founder and Patron-in-Chief of Minhaj-ul-Quran International, Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri was the key note speaker of the event.

The first session of the conference was for interfaith harmony in which representatives from other faiths also attended. This session was conducted in English, highlighting peace in Islam as well as displaying tolerance and mutual understanding between other faiths. In this session, Shaykh-ul-Islam delivered a very comprehensive speech in English highlighting Islam’s message of peace and love for the humanity.

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Minhaj-ul-Quran International North America – Dallas Chapter had organized a dinner reception in the honor of Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri upon his recent visit to Dallas, Texas on the eve of new year 2012. The spiritual event was attended by about 250 participants mainly from Dallas and Houston. Event took place in the beautiful hall of Charles W. Eisemann Center located in Richardson, TX. Due to the limited capacity of the venue, attendance was allowed by invitation only. Dr. Mansoor Mian, Sami Qureshi, Qazi Mujeeb, and other members from the Dallas Chapter welcomed Shaykh-ul-Islam and his family and all other invited guests.

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The Centre for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution (CRDC) at George Mason University, Washington D.C. along with Institute for Middle East Studies at the Marmara University, Istanbul organized and hosted the international 3-day conference in Istanbul, Turkey. The conference started on 30th November 2011 and concluded on 2nd December 2011.

The conference aimed at creating a space for dialogue for a peaceful future in Afghanistan. There are many Afghan scholars, Imams who are trying to build peace and justice based on their own religious foundations, but they are currently unsupported and feel religious confusion about jihad, terrorism and suicide bombings due to the conflicts and wars spread over a decade.

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Click here to read the news coverage of this great conference that was attended by more than 12,000 participants

Click here to read detail report on the conference

Click here to read and endorse the London Peace Declaration

Reported by: Fatima Qazi, MYL (Dallas Chapter) & Nasir Khan, MYL (Houston Chapter)

With the goal of educating the Muslim Ummah about the highly esteemed status of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in an era of confusion, the Houston Chapter of Minhaj-ul-Quran International North America (MQI) was honored to invite Shaykh Sayyedi Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri to illuminate the glorious status of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) through verses of the Holy Quran, which explain the highest honor, reverence, greatest esteem and respect conferred to the Holy Prophet (PBUH) by Allah Almighty. In order for us to come closer to the Holy Prophet (PBUH), we need to have the cognizance about how Allah Almighty loves His prophet (PBUH) and places him on the highest esteem and how He wants us to love him, respect him, and pay honors and blessings.

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by David Costello From: The Courier-Mail

IT takes a supremely brave individual to look into the eyes of Muslim extremists and tell them they are un-Islamic and unbelievers.

That is exactly what Dr Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri has done and that is why he acclaimed across the world as an enlightened, moderate voice within Islam.

Dr Qadri was born in Pakistan and became a distinguished scholar, lawyer and politician in his home country.

These days he is based in Canada and he travels the world to speak and touch base with members of Minhaj-ul-Quran International, the organisation he founded.

It is described as a worldwide, broad-based moderate Islamic welfare, human rights and education organisation.

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SouthAsian Chronicle, a popular US based tabloid targeting South Asian community, has published following interesting front page article in its current edition on the occassion of 10th anniversay of 9/11:

By Mr. M. R. Malik and Mr. Raj Srinivasan, Los Angeles, CA.

In the course of human history, someone is born every hundred years or so, whose intuition on God, religion, and faith transcends the religion he or she is born into, and attracts people of many faith based groups, or people belonging to other religions. Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, who lives in Canada and travels around the world to spread his message of peace and freedom for all humanity, is one of the revivalists of the present century. Most of his speech is directed towards the extremist elements in the Muslim world, though many of his admirers who attend the meetings are leaders in other religions such as Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, and Hinduism. He acknowledges that the Western countries provide more freedom to Muslims than the many avowed Muslim nations and the Arab nations. It is not enough to read an article on him and try to understand his mission, his message for humanity, and where he is heading. There are too many news on both the print media and the websites to list.

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The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has formally recognised and granted a ‘Special Consultative Status’ to Minhaj-ul-Quran International.

Minhaj-ul-Quran International founded by the prominent authority on Islam, Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, is an international organization working to promote peace, tolerance, interfaith harmony and education, tackle extremism and terrorism, engage with young Muslims for religious moderation, promote women’s rights, development and empowerment, and provide social welfare and promotion of human rights.

UN ECOSOC consultative status allows NGOs to attend UN conferences and meetings, submit written statements and reports, make oral interventions, and host panels in UN buildings.

Minhaj-ul-Quran International was recommended by the Committee on NGOs at its 2011 regular session and formally recognized during the UN Annual session.