Islam Is a Religion of Peace, Says Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah

Arab News - Saudi Arabia ^ | 4-21-04 | M. Ghazanfar Ali Khan

[Oldeconomybuyer]

RIYADH, 21 April 2004 — Crown Prince Abdullah, deputy premier and commander of the National Guard, yesterday reaffirmed that Islam is a religion of peace and moderation.

The crown prince was delivering the inaugural address at an international conference on Islam and terrorism, organized by Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University.

“Islam condemns all forms of terrorism and we must strive to correct wrong perceptions about our religion,” he said. “This is my vision.”

More than 200 experts on terrorism and academics from European, American and Asian universities and think-tanks attended the event, titled “The Stand of Islam on Terrorism, Violence and Extremism.”

Higher Education Minister Dr. Khaled Al-Angary, in a keynote address for the conference, reiterated Saudi Arabia’s resolve to combat terror.

Constant clashes between the West and the Islamic world were a bad omen for the future of the world, the education minister said, adding that the three-day conference was intended to clarify these misconceptions.

Dr. Al-Angary also underlined the importance of unearthing the roots of terrorism and extremism.

He said Islamic teachings called for dialogue, and asked the faithful to expose lies and accusations about the religion.

Later, the crown prince laid the foundation stone of Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University’s SR350-million women’s campus and of an SR100 million project for a college of languages, translation and computing.

The university has been trying to shed its extremist image after it emerged that a number of terror suspects on the government’s most-wanted list were IMSIU graduates.

On the sidelines of the conference, it screened a documentary highlighting the growth of the university and its contribution to curbing extremism and violence.

[Diogenesis]

PARTIAL LIST OF TERRORIST ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED BY THEMURDEROUS SAVAGES OF "PEACE"

1968 Robert Kennedy assassinated
1972 Munich Olympics Sep-5,1972 (Black September)
1976 Entebbe Hostage Crisis, June 27, 1976
1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, Nov. 4, 1979 444 days
1979 Grand Mosque Seizure, Nov 20,1979
1981 Assassination of Egyptian President, Oct 6,1981
1982 Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister, Sept 14, 1982
1983 Bombing of US Embassy in Beirut6, April 18,1983
1983 Bombing of Maring Barricks, Beruit, Oct 23,1983
1984 Hizballah Restaurant Bombing, April 12,1984
1985 Egyptian Airliner Hijacking, Nov 23,1985
1985 Rome Airport murders
1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacked, U.S. Navy diver murdered
1985 Achille Lauro hijacking, Homacidal maniac lived in saddams Iraq
1986 Aircraft Bombing in Greece, March 30, 1986
1988 Pan Am 747 Flight 103 Bombing, Lockerbie, 100's murdered
1988 Berlin Discoteque Bombing, Dec 21,1988
1992 Bombing in Israeli Embassy in Argentina, March 17,1992
1993 Attempted Assassination of Pres. Bush Sr., April 14,1993
1993 First World Trade Center bombing, February 26th, 7 Killed, Hundreds injured, Billions
1994 Air France Hijacking, Dec 24,1994
1995 Attack on US Diplomats in Pakistan, Mar 8,1995
1995 Saudi Military Installation Attack, Nov 13, 1995
1995 Kashmiri Hostage taking, July 4,1995
1996 Khobar Towers attack
1996 Sudanese Missionarys Kidnapping, Aug 17,1996
1996 Paris Subway Explosion, Dec 3,1996
1997 Israeli Shopping Mall Bombing, Sept 4, 1997
1997 Yemeni Kidnappings, Oct 30,1997
1998 Somali Hostage taking crisis, April 15,1998
1998 U.S. Embassy Bombing in Peru, Jan 15, 1998
1998 U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1998 U.S. Tanzania Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1999 Plot to blow up Space Needle (thwarted)
2000 USS Cole attacked, many U.S. Navy sailors murdered
2000-2003 Intifada against Israel - 100's dead and injured
2000 Manila Bombing, Dec 30,2000
2001 4 Commercial airliners hijacked, 250+ murdered
2001 World Trade Center attacked, 2800+ murdered
2001 Flight 93 murders
2001 Pentagon attacked, 180+ murdered
2002 Reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and murdered
2002 Philippines American missionary, Filipino nurse killed
2002 July 4, El Al attack Los Angeles LAX, several murdered
2002 Bali bombing - 200 dead, 300 injured
2002 Yemen, French Oil Tanker attacked
2002 Marines attacked / murdered in Kuwait
2002 Washington D.C. sniper
2002 Russian Theater attacked, 100+ dead
2002 Nigerian riots against Miss World Pageant, 200 dead, dozens injured
2002 Mombasa Hotel Attacked, 12 dead, dozens injured
2002 Israeli Boeing 757 attacked by missiles, fortunately no one injured
2002 August Hotel bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia. 12 dead, dozens injured.
2003 Rusian concert bombing
2003 Phillipines airport and market bombing
2003 Foiled SAM plot in the USA
2003 UN Baghdad HQ Bombing
on and on and on and on it goes .........

[Young Rhino]

Yep...Islam will be a religion of peace...once all jews and other infidels have been wiped from the planet. Nice try by the camel jockey prince...there is nothing peaceful about Islam. It is a world war to the death.

[eastforker]

Include April 21st, 2004, car bomb in SA, think the prince is still saying Islam is the ROP?

[kittymyrib]

Yes, don't believe your lyin' eyes. We should NEVER forget!

[MarineDad]

So who we gonna believe - da exalted Princie-poo, or our own lyin' eyes??

[EverOnward]

To Crown Prince Abdullah and his fellow Islamics: What you do is so loud I can't hear you.

[Rummyfan]

Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University.

More terrorists graduated last year than any other Middle Eastern university! Any religion which must repeatedly state that it is a Religion of Peace doth protest too much I think! The Crown Prince should go back to hu**ing camels and goats.

[quadrant]

Poor Crown Prince. He cannot or will not understand the dif-
ference between internal contentment and peaceful relations with other religions and cultures. No one would deny that Islam, along with all other religions, gives believers a feeling of internal peace, but Islam has never found a way to live on an equal footing with those who do not believe. As long as Christians and Jews acknowledge the political supremacy of Islam they are granted a measure of tolerance, but when Islam is challenged it reacts violently. As Professor Samuel Huntington said, "Islam's borders are bloody."

[E Rocc]

Include April 21st, 2004, car bomb in SA, think the prince is still saying Islam is the ROP?

Ummm....yeah. Because he knows that non-fanatical Islam is the initial target of the terrorists. They want to take over the faith, which they're not even close to doing.

Sane Muslims like Abdullah are our allies in the fight against the insane ones. To group them all together (especially in terms that can only be described as racist) is not only wrong, it's counterproductive. Fortunately, President Bush knows this.

-Eric

[mylife]

"Islam is the religion of 'BOOM' "

[eastforker]

As one of the muslims in london said recently" There are no moderate muslims behind closed doors,you hear one thing, we hear something differant"

[4everontheRight]

Islam is the religion of Peace...yeah, a piece of hostage here, a piece of hostage there.......

[Gritty]

“Islam condemns all forms of terrorism and we must strive to correct wrong perceptions about our religion,” he said.

*snort*

[Balding_Eagle]

As I think about each of the events on the list, at the time, they all seemed to happen in a vacuum. To see them listed as you did puts them in proper context. Why didn't we 'connect the dots' that that long list provides?

Religion of Peace? What utter nonsense.

[Dog Gone]

Prince Abdullah might want to look out the window to see the smoke rising from another terrorist attack in Riyadh and ask himself whether this was the work of infidels or "peaceful" muslims.

[blanknoone]

Islam Is a Religion of Peace, Says Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah

Islam is a Religion of Violence, Says tens of thousands of victims of Islamic violence.

[Westbrook]

According to the tenets of Islam, it is not a sin to lie to the infidel dogs.

The Prince, as usual, is lying to the infidel dogs.

He may find it harder to smile when the Islamo-fascists put his head on the block.

[Iron Matron]

Islam is a religion of "piece"t: A piece of an innocent victim here, another piece of an innocent victim there . .

[DustyMoment]

Well, just saying it, Crown Prince Abdullah, doesn't make it so. Actions speak louder than words.

The indiscriminant slaughter of 60 people in Basra today by Muslim terrorists tends to belie the Crown Prince's words.