Saudi Arabia: ISIS is Islam's Number One Enemy
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Jumat, 19 Oktober 2018 19:27 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Riyadh - Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh declared that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and al-Qaeda as "number one enemy of Islam."
He said that the main goal of these extreme groups is to divide Islam, which is the greatest crime.
Frank Gardner, BBC Security Correspondent for the Middle East, said that the statement showed that Saudi Arabia has no ties with the ideology of those groups. Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh said that the ideology to establish a caliphate in Iraq and Syria is not related to Islam.
"Extremist and militant ideas and terrorism, which spread decay on Earth, destroying human civilization, are not - in any way - part of Islam, but are number one enemies of Islam, and Muslims are their first victims," he said as quoted by BBC.
Meanwhile, on June 2014, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia firmly said that "we will not let a band of terrorists who have taken religion as a disguise behind which they hide private interests to terrorize the protected Muslims, to touch our homeland or any of its sons or its protected residents."
ANINGTIAS JATMIKA | BBC