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Saudi Arabia to host extraordinary joint Islamic-Arab summit on Saturday
Reuters ^ | November 10th, 2023 | Moaz Abd-Alaziz

Posted on 11/10/2023 6:02:45 PM PST by Ultra Sonic 007

CAIRO, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia will host an extraordinary joint Islamic-Arab summit in Riyadh on Saturday, the Saudi foreign ministry said late on Friday.

The kingdom was scheduled to host two extraordinary summits, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation summit and the Arab League summit, on Saturday. The joint summit will replace the two separate gatherings, the ministry said.

The joint meeting "will be held in response to the exceptional circumstances taking place in the Palestinian Gaza Strip as countries feel the need to unify efforts and come out with a unified collective position," it said.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Gaza; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arableague; arabs; caliphate; gaza; hamas; iran; iraq; islam; israel; muslims; oic; saudiarabia; summit
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Whatever comes out of this summit will essentially be the opinion of the entire Islamic world on what's going with Gaza.
1 posted on 11/10/2023 6:02:45 PM PST by Ultra Sonic 007
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

Would it not be incredible if they came out and said “We don’t care. They had it coming”?


2 posted on 11/10/2023 6:08:58 PM PST by FrankRizzo890
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

Feeling their oats seeing how week Biden is and how defeated by the Islamic invasion whiten Christian nations have become.


3 posted on 11/10/2023 6:19:46 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

4 posted on 11/10/2023 6:20:50 PM PST by Theoria
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

Nothing good is going to come of this unification.


5 posted on 11/10/2023 6:33:29 PM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

Aren’t all Arabs basically Muslim (Islamic)?


6 posted on 11/10/2023 6:42:16 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Jim W N
Aren’t all Arabs basically Muslim (Islamic)?

96%, according to the latest figures I could find. So... yeah.

The wild card here is that the split between Sunni and Shia is much more hostile than the split between Catholics and Protestants (to the point of ongoing and widespread violence), but against an external (Jewish) "aggressor," I rather doubt that will matter. As it is, Iran (Shia) is one of if not the biggest supporter of Hamas (Sunni).
7 posted on 11/10/2023 6:47:15 PM PST by verum ago (I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
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To: Jim W N

Iran is islamic but not Arab. Am I right. Will they be invited?


8 posted on 11/10/2023 6:48:04 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

So how many suicide bombers will show up?


9 posted on 11/10/2023 6:51:30 PM PST by red-dawg (They're going to have to pry my gasoline powered car from my cold, dead hands.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Iran is Islamic. But they’re Shi’ite. However, they support Hamas which is Sunni.


10 posted on 11/10/2023 7:16:25 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

El al appears to have suspended flights over Saudi Arabia and Jordan.


11 posted on 11/10/2023 7:26:14 PM PST by RitchieAprile (available monkeys looking for the change..)
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There is no evidence of strong Iran support of Hamas.

Why would anyone think so? Saudi Arabia has much more money than Iran, and they are Sunni. Why not presume they are the money source?

Why? Because they are unsanctionable oil. They cut people’s heads off and we ignore it. Somehow, though, we are not supposed to ignore a Ukraine governed by Russia. What is worse? A change of governance or cutting people’s heads off?


12 posted on 11/10/2023 7:42:12 PM PST by Owen (.)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) includes both Arab and non-Arab states. It also includes both Sunni and Shiite states. The major Islamic population not represented is in India (200 million).

Afghanistan, Albania, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Algeria, Djibouti, Chad, Indonesia, Morocco, Cote d’Ivoire, Palestine, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Guyana, Iraq, Iran, Cameroon, Qatar, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Comoros, Kuwait, Libya, Lebanon, Maldives, Malaysia, Mali, Egypt, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somali, Sudan, Surinam, Syria*, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Togo, Tunisia, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Oman, Jordan, Yemen.


13 posted on 11/10/2023 8:07:56 PM PST by FarCenter
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To: FarCenter

A list of countries I have no interest in visiting and if they were gone tomorrow I would NGAS.


14 posted on 11/10/2023 8:13:28 PM PST by Mouton (US Home to one party rule)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s expected attendance at the OIC summit on Sunday will bring an unusual level of attention to the 57-member bloc of Muslim-majority countries.

It will be Raisi’s first trip to Saudi Arabia since a surprise, China-brokered rapprochement deal announced in March ended seven years of severed bilateral ties.

Iran is a backer not just of Hamas but of Hezbollah and Yemen’s Huthi rebels, who have been at war with a Saudi-led coalition since 2015.

However, the Middle East heavyweights agree on publicly supporting Palestinians, a point stressed in official communications on the first call between Raisi and Prince Mohammed on October 12, five days after the war erupted.

Because the OIC’s membership extends from Africa to Asia, any statement coming out of Sunday’s summit could also underscore how support for Palestinians is growing well beyond the Middle East, said Saudi analyst Aziz Alghashian.

“Non-Western countries are not accepting this any longer and not buying the American narrative, the Western narrative” of the conflict, he said.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231109-saudi-hosts-gaza-summits-iran-president-as-regional-fears-mount


15 posted on 11/10/2023 8:16:26 PM PST by FarCenter
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To: Jim W N

No. A fair number are Christian. Not all follow Mad Mo.


16 posted on 11/10/2023 8:58:33 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Theoria

Forty years ago.

Amazingly, D’estaing only died a couple of years ago.


17 posted on 11/10/2023 9:53:49 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007
Sounds like an excellent opportunity to set off a bimb!


Christians In Action, where are you?



18 posted on 11/11/2023 3:30:56 AM PST by Candor7 (( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!)<img src=""width=500></img>)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

Good place for a well placed bomb.


19 posted on 11/11/2023 5:38:09 AM PST by Wdempsey (Democrats and slinkys.. Both useless but fun to push down stairs.)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

Why hold it in Riyadh I wonder?

With the huge complex built at Mecca, and since they are all Muslim, you would think that they would hold their conference at a place that is central to them all.
Home base more or less, they can easily handle the numbers, that’s for sure.


20 posted on 11/11/2023 6:52:18 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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