Shaikh Abdulaziz Bin Abdullah Al-AsShaikh, the Grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, Chairman of the Committee of Senior Ulema [religious scholars] and Chairman of the Department of Scientific Research and Ifta [guidance], today issued the following statement in response to the killing of the Egyptian envoy to Iraq: Praise be to Allaah, and prayer and peace […]
Tag: terrorism
250 talked out of Terrorism
Saleh Al-Asheikh speaks to the media at the Counterterrorism International Conference in Riyadh. Saudi Arabia has been successful in changing the idological thinking of more than 250 Al-Qaeda sympathizers, the Kingdom's Islamic Affairs Minister Saleh Al-Asheikh said yesterday. “We have reached out to them and have succeeded in convincing more than 250 to change their […]
Saudis stand united against Terrorism
A nationwide anti-terror campaign was launched on Saturday as officials, intellectuals, students and the general public vowed to stand by the government in its efforts to stamp out terrorism. The campaign, coinciding with the Counterterrorism International Conference in Riyadh, aims at increasing public awareness of terrorism and deviancy. All governorates, ministries and government departments are […]
Makkah Imam urges Muslims to shun Terror
As millions of faithful marked 'Eed al-adh.haa yesterday, Muslims were warned against heeding militant calls to wage terrorist attacks in the name of Islam. The warning came, amid a surge in militant attacks in Muslim countries and beyond, from Sheikh Abdulrahman Al-Sudais, imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah, while addressing Haj pilgrims in a […]
Grand Mufti condemns attack on U.S. consulate
The Kingdom's Grand mufti, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah Al Al-Sheikh, condemned and denounced the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Jeddah on Monday 6th December 2004. In a statement published in the Jeddah-based Al-Madinah newspapers today, Al Al-Sheikh said that attacking the U.S. consulate, throwing explosives, killing and wounding innocent people, and undermining […]
Makkah Imaam equates Riyadh bombing with Israeli terror
Source: Arab News Saudi Arabia's Islamic affairs minister and imams of the two holy mosques have condemned Saturday's terrorist bombing at Al-Muhaya compound in Riyadh as a gruesome crime and likened it to Israeli terror against the Palestinians. The bombing of a residential compound in the capital last Saturday, which killed at least 18 people […]
Public urged to inform on terrorists - Grand Mufti
Saudi Arabia's highest religious authority yesterday issued a fatwa, or religious edict, calling on citizens and expatriates to inform on suspected extremists engaged in terrorist activities. The committee that issues religious rulings, headed by Grand mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh, “urges citizens and (foreign) residents to inform on anyone planning or preparing to carry out […]
Haram Imaams denounce terrorist attacks
The imams of the two holy mosques in Makkah and Madeenah yesterday denounced recent terrorist attacks in the Kingdom and said the terrorists were playing in the hands of Islam's enemies. “Our hearts tremble... from these criminal acts in Riyadh, from what followed in Yanbu... because they claimed sacred lives,” said Dr. Osama Khayyat, an […]
Makkah Imaam takes US to task on Iraq
The imam at the Grand Mosque in Makkah yesterday lambasted the United States and its allies in Iraq for double-speak. “Although they claim they are the advocates of reform and freedom, they are in fact the forces of destruction and devastation,” Sheikh Saud Al-Shuraim said in an apparent reference to the US-led occupation forces in […]
Grand Mufti: 'Crush terror mercilessly'
Saudi Arabia's grand mufti yesterday reiterated Islam's total opposition to terror and called upon the world's decision-makers and politicians to do justice to the Islamic nation. Delivering his annual sermon to nearly two million pilgrims who had assembled on the plain of Arafat, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh emphasized that terror and violence must be “mercilessly” […]