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Thread #69485   Message #1186506
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
15-May-04 - 08:01 PM
Thread Name: BS: It is TORTURE not 'abuse'!!!
Subject: RE: BS: It is TORTURE not 'abuse'!!!
For example Haram Imams Denounce Terrorist Attacks
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"The imams of the two holy mosques in Makkah (Mecca) and Madinah yesterday (May 7th 2004) denounced recent terrorist attacks in the Kingdom and said the terrorists were playing in the hands of Islam's enemies.

"Our hearts tremble... from these criminal acts in Riyadh, from what followed in Yanbu... because they claimed sacred lives," said Dr. Osama Khayyat, an imam at the Grand Mosque in Makkah (Mecca).

Delivering his sermon to the thousands of faithful who thronged the mosque for the Friday prayer, the imam reiterated that Islam prohibits the killing of innocent people.

The imam was referring to the killing of five Western engineers and a National Guard officer in the latest terrorist attack in the industrial city of Yanbu and the suicide bombing of a security forces building in Riyadh, which killed six people, including four security men and a young girl, and wounded 145 others.


And a Google search quickly enough comes up with similar denunciations of atrocities from Muslim religious and community leaders in other countries, including the UK and the USA.