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WASHINGTON – Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, the kingdom’s top religious authority in the ultra-conservative Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam, has ruled it’s acceptable for men to marry girls so young the West would deem it nothing short of pedophilia and rape. Despite the Saudi justice ministry’s failed efforts to date to set 15 as a minimum age to marry a girl in the kingdom, Grand Mufti Abdulaziz declared there is nothing prohibiting Muslim men from marrying girls even younger. As Grand Mufti, Abdulaziz is president of the Supreme Council of Ulema (Islamic scholars) and chairman of...

Saudi Wealth Fuels Global Jihadism Posted Oct. 27, 2003 By Kenneth R. Timmerman Generations of Muslims in the Middle East have been raised on the anti-Western, anti-Semitic theologies of Ayatollah Khomeini and in the Saudi Wahhabi system of madrassas (religious schools). This foundation set the stage for the rise of Osama bin Laden. Doaa 'Amer is a professional TV anchor who hosts Muslim Woman Magazine on IQRAA TV, a satellite channel broadcasting throughout the Arab world. As she tells it, her job is to educate the next generation of children to be "true Muslims." Readers accustomed to hearing Islam described...

Saudi's great mufti Shaykh Abdul Aziz al-Shaykh denounces US 21-02-2002BBC on line: The highest religious authority in Saudi Arabia has publicly denounced Israel and defended Islam as incompatible with terrorism in a sermon at the end of the Muslim Hajj, or pilgrimage. Addressing more than two million pilgrims gathered on Mount Arafat, near Mecca, Saudi Arabia's grand mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh condemned what he said was Israel's killing of unarmed Palestinians. A group of Iranian pilgrims also held a rally condemning the United States and Israel, the Iranian news agency IRNA reported. Before the start of the pilgrimage,...