![]() This study concludes that the coverage of MWL has changed recently from being negative to being positive with Mohammad Al-Issa assuming the leadership of MWL and with radical changes taking place in Saudi Arabia itself, politically, socially, religiously and culturally. This study analyses news reports about the MWL published by mostly western media outlets, by using Critical Discourse Analysis as a theory. At the time, The Saudi adopted version of Islam known as Wahabism was rejected in the western world. This allowed it to carry out religious, cultural, aid and educational programs. Following its establishment in 1962, the Muslim World League (MWL) was meant to be an organization that expands the outreach of Saudi Arabia and its then Wahabi version of Islam in the world in the time when other competing ideologies, especially Arab nationalism, were on the rise.
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