The Saudis are worried (and you can't blame them) that ISIS will be coming after them soon. I think the Saudi royals and the Saudi clergy want to hold on to their heads.
‘Beware of jihad calls’, top cleric warns Saudis
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti urged young people yesterday to ignore calls to jihad from people representing “deviant principles”, the latest salvo in an anti-militant campaign by the kingdom’s religious establishment. Riyadh, the world’s No 1 oil exporter, is unnerved by the rapid advance in Iraq and Syria of Islamic State insurgents and fears this could radicalize some of its own citizens and eventually lead to attacks on the US-allied government.
The word “deviant” is usually used in official and religious Saudi circles to refer to the Islamist militant ideology followed by Al-Qaeda, of which Islamic State is an offshoot. Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, the highest religious authority in the country, this month described the creed of Al- Qaeda and Islamic State as Islam’s “enemy number one”, a message echoed in Friday sermons across the country.
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‘Beware of jihad calls’, top cleric warns Saudis
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti urged young people yesterday to ignore calls to jihad from people representing “deviant principles”, the latest salvo in an anti-militant campaign by the kingdom’s religious establishment. Riyadh, the world’s No 1 oil exporter, is unnerved by the rapid advance in Iraq and Syria of Islamic State insurgents and fears this could radicalize some of its own citizens and eventually lead to attacks on the US-allied government.The word “deviant” is usually used in official and religious Saudi circles to refer to the Islamist militant ideology followed by Al-Qaeda, of which Islamic State is an offshoot. Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, the highest religious authority in the country, this month described the creed of Al- Qaeda and Islamic State as Islam’s “enemy number one”, a message echoed in Friday sermons across the country.
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