MAY 2019 | VOLUME 45 | ISSUE 5 Contents I. Editorial Leaders Letter from the Editor . 7 New Zealand: The Intolerability of Intolerance . 9 Russia & Islam: The Power of Tradition . .13 Editorial Department: II. MWL and the World: The Month in Review Secretary General H.E. Dr. Muhammad bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa III. Feature Articles Supervisor General Geopolitics Media Affairs Dept. Moscow, Grozny, St. Petersburg, Kazan: Abdulwahab Alshehri MWL Reaches Hearts & Minds . .17 Editor Responsible The Chechnya Report: Marcia A. Christoff MWL Makes Inroads, Marks Influence . .29 P.O. Box 537 Russia Conference Keynote Speech of H.E. Sheikh Makkah, Saudi Arabia Dr. Al-Issa “Islam: A Message of Mercy and Peace” . 36 Tel: 0096 66 (012)560 0919 Email:
[email protected] Cultural Affairs: Dazzling Gems and Hidden Treasures: Two Mosques of Russia . .42 Follow Us on Social Media: Islam & Orthodoxy: Cooperation Not Conflict . .48 @mwlorg_en | @mwlorg | Russia’s Powerful Muslim Spiritual Board . .52 @mwlorg_fr | @mwlorg_ur Economics/Business /mwlorg.en | /mwlorg Start-ups and Oligarchs: Russian-Muslim Entrepreneurship . .54 @mwlorg Technology and Medicine /themwlorg Russia’s Silicon Valley and Islamic World Investment ....................57 mwlorg IV. Historical Essays Kazan’s Most Famous Woman . .58 Count Leo Tolstoy: The Friend of Islam . .60 1 MWL in March/April Highlights of the Month in Review MARCH 28 and the Islamic world. The visit of the Muslim World League to Rus- sia—a first-ever trip—and the gathering of the MARCH 28, MOSCOW international Islamic conference “Islam: A Mes- H.E. Sheikh Dr. Al-Issa signed a cooperation sage of Mercy & Peace” began on this day at the agreement with the State Fund for the Promotion President Hotel in Moscow, closing in Grozny on of Culture, Science and Education in Russia.