Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti strongly condemned the deadly blasts that rocked London and are believed to be the work of Al-Qaeda, saying Islam strictly prohibits the slaughter of innocent people.The explosions that ripped through central London’s transport system on Thursday, “targeting peaceable people, are not condoned by Islam, and are indeed prohibited by our religion,” Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh said Friday in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency. “Attributing to Islam acts of individual or collective killings, bombings, destruction of properties and the terrorizing of peaceable people is unfair, because they are alien to the religion,” said Sheikh, who heads the Council of Senior Ulema, Saudi Arabia’s highest religious authority.Full Story
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