His Excellency Secretary General of the Muslim World League, Chairman of the Association of Muslim Scholars, Sheikh Dr. Muhammad bin Abdul Karim Al Issa visited the Kingdom of Cambodia as part of the World Muslim League’s mission to promote coexistence and harmony among national societies, including Islamic components in countries of religious diversity, especially their religious minority. At the official invitation of the Cambodian side.
During the first day of the visit, His Excellency Dr. Al Issa held meetings and extensive meetings with the Prime Ministers of the Government and Parliament and their members, where he was initially received by the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, Mr. Hun Sen, at the government headquarters in the capital Phnom Penh.
His Excellency the General Secretary of the Muslim World League expressed appreciation for the outstanding Cambodian national model in its coexistence and harmony of its social diversity, especially in its celebration of its Islamic national component and its full possibility of its religious privacy and all other national rights.
In turn, His Excellency Mr. Hun Sen highly appreciated the originality of the Islamic component in the Kingdom of Cambodia and its complete harmony with all its patriotic brotherhood in images of solidarity and love, reflecting the level of religious and national self-consciousness of all, emphasizing in this context great recognition and respect the religious privacy of the Islamic component, its freedom to practice its rituals and its desire for its state – to grant it powers in accordance with the constitution and laws of the country, like other Cambodian components.
His Excellency also met with His Excellency the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, Dr. Osman Hasan, who described the visit of Dr. Al-Issa at the head of the delegation of the Muslim World League as a “historic” visit. emphasizing that this visit was a subject of celebration and great interest from the entire Cambodian people, and especially the Islamic component, his news filled the various media, including important meetings and stops on his agenda, especially a meeting with His Majesty the King of Cambodia Cambodia and the prime minister’s state, as well as the heads of parliament, the senate and a number of deputy prime ministers holding a number of important ministerial portfolios.
Dr. Al-Issa thanked the Prime Minister, expressing his joy at visiting the Kingdom of Cambodia, noting the values of love and tolerance that characterize the Cambodian people.
As part of his official visit, His Excellency the General Secretary of the Muslim World League and Chairman of the Association of Muslim Scholars was a guest of the Cambodian Parliament at its headquarters in the capital Phnom Penh, where he met with His Excellency the President, Mr. Hein Sam Rin and members of Parliament.
The Speaker of Parliament praised the global and “key” role of the Association in promoting the harmony of national societies, emphasizing that the Cambodian Islamic component coexists with the rest of the national components, freedom and love, and that this constitutional value represents the Kingdom of Cambodia as a permanent and national priority.
He emphasized the government’s desire to empower Muslims in Cambodia socially and economically in order to have effective government representation, as well as its interest in their religious rights and freedoms and the observance of their rituals.
The Senate of Cambodia, headed by His Excellency Mr. Sai Chom, Secretary General of the Muslim World League, also met with the Chairman of the Council and a number of its members in the presence of the Chairman of Education, Committee of the Council on Religions, Culture and Tourism, Chairman of the Committee for Investigation, Monitoring and Combat with corruption and Prime Minister for Islamic Affairs.
The President of the Senate highly appreciated the visit of His Excellency Dr. Al-Issa on behalf of the Islamic peoples that make up the Muslim World League, noting that the visit of His Excellency “with his well-known international track record as part of the outstanding reputation of the League in uniting the followers of religions, races and cultures” will strengthen and consolidate in the future relations between Cambodia and the peoples of the Islamic world.
Mr. Che emphasized Cambodia’s pride in its Islamic component and its desire to secure all its rights without discrimination. His Excellency also thanked the Association for supporting the Cambodian people in all their crises without discrimination, in aid, health and education.
In the same context, His Excellency Sheikh Dr. Muhammad Al Issa met at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Cambodia with His Excellency Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Kingdom of Cambodia, Mr. Brak Shawn.
Mr. Barak described the visit as “very important”, expressing deep appreciation for the interest and great efforts of the League’s leadership around the world; Confront extremism and hatred and build bridges between followers of religions and cultures to promote the values of tolerance and coexistence among all.
For his part, Dr. Al-Issa emphasized that the visit expresses great gratitude to the Kingdom of Cambodia and its excellent model of coexistence and peace, as it has overcome the painful problems of the past with a sincere national will, reflecting the true and sincere awareness of the peace-loving Cambodian people of all the meanings of the world and its demands, including comprehensive justice.
As part of his meetings with Cambodian leaders, Dr. Al-Issa met with His Excellency Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, Mr. Sar Heng, where they discussed a number of topics of mutual interest, with a particular focus on public peace issues. , and emphasizing the great importance of the contribution of religious and community leaders to strengthening national and international security We very much look forward to this communication carried out by the Muslim World League with its project calling for peace of religiously, ethnically and culturally diverse societies. through practical and successful methods of understanding. Consciousness is the strongest element in resisting those ideas that threaten peace and stability, and that the danger is to penetrate society by any method to its end.
The Minister praised the contribution of the International League at all intellectual and humanitarian levels, as well as its position towards the Kingdom of Cambodia during the coronavirus pandemic.
