Posted on 06/08/2015 10:58:35 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Top Muslim authorities in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan spoke out over the weekend against extremism, the latest examples of religious figures doing what Western governments encourage as part of a broad campaign to reject and delegitimize any link between terrorism and Islam.
In both cases, however, the authorities concerned have controversial records themselves, having drawn criticism in the past for justifying terror in the Pakistani instance and for inciting hatred of non-Muslims in the Saudi one.
Addressing students at a Saudi-affiliated Islamic school in London at the weekend, the government-appointed imam of Mecca’s Grand Mosque, Sheikh Abdul Rahman al-Sudais, urged them “to be cautious about deviant and extremist ideologies that promote violence, racial hatred and conflicts between various schools of religious thought,” the kingdom’s Arab News reported.
The official SPA news agency used somewhat different language in citing Sudais’ comments at the King Fahd Academy, saying that he warned them against “being dragged behind the suspicious calls contrary to the correct and tolerant religion, or being preoccupied with any trend fueling sectarian hatreds, conflicts and disputes, or listening to the advocates of charging others and countries with disbelief, bombing and destruction.” …
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OK, sure. I’m against terror, and stuff
Oh and by the way - death to the Jews.
They say what they think they must in English (remember, their “holy book” commands them to lie whenever necessary to protect or further their “faith”). They only speak the truth in their native tongue.
Problem is, due to the policy of taqiyya, you can’t ever believe any Muslim.
” Sheikh Abdul Rahman al-Sudais”
This is the same dude that blamed SA’s drought on the bad behavior of women.
To a Muslim, jihad is not “terrorism”. But any action taken to counter jihad IS terrorism. It’s all about how you define things.
The favorite show of muslim clerics is the Goat Whisperer.
‘Senior Muslim clerics’ speak out of both sides of their faces at once.
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