Posted on 08/20/2014 8:09:20 PM PDT by markomalley
Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, the highest religious authority in the country, said on Tuesday the militant groups Islamic State and al Qaeda were "enemy number one of Islam" and not in any way part of the faith.
Although the mufti and other senior Saudi clerics have condemned Islamic State, al Qaeda and other groups before, the timing of Al al-Sheikh's statement is significant given the gains by militants in Iraq.
"Extremist and militant ideas and terrorism which spread decay on Earth, destroying human civilisation, are not in any way part of Islam, but are enemy number one of Islam, and Muslims are their first victims," he said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
He later compared them to the Kharijite movement in early Islam, which assassinated the Prophet Mohammed's son-in-law Ali for making compromises to a rival Muslim faction, and has been seen as heretical by most subsequent Muslim sects.
Saudi Arabia follows the ultra conservative Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam but sees Islamist militants, who staged attacks in the kingdom last decade, as posing a threat to its own stability.
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I would say it's a pretty safe bet that if ISIS was only beheading non-Muslims, he would be utterly mum.
Actually, they are practicing Islam the way Mohammed did.
They are part of Wahabbism, an extremist sect that encourages stoning, etc. same thing that ISIS supports. Just afraid to be on the losing end, not repudiating their beliefs.
Every sect of Islam is equally bogus.
They are following the Koran
Nervous Mufti?
They’re comin’ for you now.
Too late, chicken are coming home to roost.
You’re correct. He is afraid of IS starting to attack inside Saudi Arabia. Secondly Ali he mentions us the first Shia Imam in Shia 12ers. Saudis being Sunni & Wahabi usually don’t have much respect for Ali at all.
The mad Wahabbi mullahs and imams created these bloodthirsty rank-and-file savages, but now the payroll masters of these homicidal slaves of Allahu (FUBAR) are concerned ... that they themselves may fall within the category “infidels”.
That’s too bad.
Go get your shine box, Barry! And bow low—your masters are off their chump.
Saudi Arabia is mystery Babylon. Scripture lines up more and more as this year goes by.
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