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Foreign ‘hands’ attacking Islam, region, says Saudi King

| 25 February 2012 | Comments (2)

Saudi King Abdullah

CAIRO: Foreign and “unnamed hands” are targeting Islam, the Islamic world and Arabs in the recent events in the region, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah said.

The king, who was giving a televised address Friday night to a conference of prominent Saudis, did not name any country in particular.

But Saudi officials have used similar terms in recent weeks to suggest a connection with Iran, a Shia country at odds with Sunni Saudi Arabia.

“There were hands that are known to you all … behind what has happened in the Arab world, regrettably targeting Islam and the Arabs,” he said.

Sunni Saudi Arabia is wary of the wave of Arab Spring uprisings, particularly in nearby Bahrain, where a Shiite majority is demanding greater rights from its Sunni rulers.

However, the king said that the kingdom strongly backs the uprising in Syria and supports all action against Syria’s President Bashar Assad.

It is not the first time leaders in the region have referred to “unnamed hands” being behind events on the ground. In Egypt, the military junta has numerous times accused “invisible hands” of being behind the violent clashes in the country in recent months.

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  • Maf_577

    if Islam is a religion from god, shouldn’t it be perfectly capable of defending itself? or does god need humans to fight for him? The same reason that christianity is dead, just another man-made religion like the rest of them.

  • http://ironburka.blogspot.com/ Mullah Lodabullah

    Ultimately, it is the Biblical God who will defeat and destroy islam, and the nations that embrace it, unless they turn away from it and accept God’s plan of salvation and eternal life through Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Islam is doomed.