The Islamic world enjoys good and distinguished relations with the United States of America, especially in the political, economic, cultural, scientific and educational fields that have been witnessing growth and prosperity for decades, despite differences with regard to the Palestinian issue and Jerusalem and the way to deal with crises in some Islamic and Arab countries. The establishment of Israel in 1948 constituted a major turning point in the relations of the Islamic world with the United States of America because of the damage done to the Palestinian people and the feeling of the Muslim peoples of the bias of American policy towards the Israeli side while disregarding the rights of the Palestinian people. These feelings were combined with the state of social and economic backwardness in many countries of the Islamic world, which allowed the opportunity for extremist groups to mislead young people and incorporate them into their extremist trends, taking advantage of the hopelessness of these societies. After the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, the US leadership opened dialogue with the Islamic world to confront the scourge of terrorism and to counter extremist ideology that distorted the teachings of the tolerant religion of Islam and turned them into allegations and interpretations that incite violence and terror to suit its objectives. One of the channels of dialogue has been through the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, formerly the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), as the universal voice of the Muslim world, which includes 57 Islamic states, making it the second largest international organization after the United Nations.
