December 2019. Last week’s Kuala Lumpur Summit may have been interpreted as an attempt by non-Arab Muslim countries to offer a viable alternative to the Saudi-dominated Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), even though Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad insisted otherwise. Either way, it was not to be. Although the leaders of Iran, Turkey and Qatar attended, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan were no-shows. Khan was pressured by the Saudis to withdraw from the three-day meeting at the last minute and Widodo’s vice-president Ma’ruf Amin excused himself from the summit due to “exhaustion”. The summit, to be known as the Perdana Dialogue from next year, was touted as a grand effort to shift narratives for the ummah, to move towards unification of the Muslim world and better address issues of conflict, extremism and oppression. Such concerns remain obstacles to restoring Islam to its “Golden Age”, which ended in the 14th century, when Islamic civilisations flourished, leading the world in commerce, science and culture. Let’s not forget the Beheadings, the Barbarity and Cruelty please.
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