New Delhi: Saudi Arabia’s former Minister for Justice, considered a leading global voice on moderate Islam on Tuesday said that India with its diversity, is “a great model for coexistence” and that the country can send a message of peace to the world.
“We have talked just moments ago about the different components in the Indian society and we have been in the past days engaging with them. And I know that the Muslim component of the Indian society, they are, as I said, proud of their Constitution and proud of
their nation and they are proud of the brotherhood that they share with the rest of the components of the Indian society” al-Issa said in the national capital today.
al-Issa who is the current Secretary General of the Muslim World League (MWL), an organisation based in Saudi Arabia and representing Muslims worldwide, was delivering an address at an event at the India Islamic Cultural Centre in the national capital organised by the Khusro Foundation. The Saudi leader is on a five-day visit to India that began on July 10.