Saudi Cleric Paranoia Watch
Charles Johnson
Thu Jan 12, 2006 at 9:40 am PST • Views: 184
Top Saudi cleric Sheikh Abdul Rahman al-Sudeis says: never mind the Hajj stampede that kills 345 people—it’s the West that’s scaring people away from Islam. (Hat tip: Terp Mole.)
MECCA (Saudi Arabia): A top Saudi cleric told Muslim pilgrims marking the climax of Haj on Tuesday that the West was using the global phenomenon of terrorism to scare people away from Islam and discredit legitimate Muslim causes.
Sheikh Abdul Rahman al-Sudeis, the state-appointed preacher at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, also called for stability in Iraq and said Islam was innocent of the charge of “terrorism”.
“The campaign against Islam has become fierce and Muslims are being described in insulting terms to distort the image of Islam and scare people away from it,” he told the 2.5 million pilgrims in a sermon to mark the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha.
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