Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh has called a reported Libyan plot to assassinate Crown Prince Abdullah as âa heinous crime and an act of treason against Islam.â
Equating the Soddy princes with Islam itself, eh?
âThe Shariah is against assassination because they are criminal acts of treason. Muslims should condemn and distance themselves from such acts that reflect aggression and injustice,â Okaz Arabic daily quoted him as saying.
Ummm... If Islam was a nation, assassination would be its national sport...
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The United States was said to be investigating allegations that the Libyan intelligence service plotted to kill the crown prince. The New York Times reported on Thursday that two individuals involved in the conspiracy and now in custody in the US and the Kingdom provided statements outlining the plot. The participants, Abdul Rahman Alamoudi, an American Muslim leader now in jails in the US and Col. Muhammad Ismael, a Libyan intelligence officer in Saudi custody, have given separate statements to American and Saudi officials about the plot. The mufti said it was the duty of Muslim scholars as well as Muslim and Arab organizations to reject such conspiracies and explain to the public the danger they pose. He said the plotters must be brought to justice. Local newspapers, meanwhile, continued commenting on the plot for the second day running. Okaz, which ran a caricature of the Libyan leader with a poem underneath it saying he was âdraped in shame,â said the conspiracy has become a source of unity and solidarity for the Saudi people. âQaddafi is undermining every Arab effort aimed at strengthening the Arab nationâs unity and has committed all kinds of acts that continuously lead it to the brink of danger. His record overflows with plots,â it said. |