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Saudi king says kingdom has made progress in tackling terrorism

 

FILE PHOTO: Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud at a summit of Gulf Cooperation Council leaders in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia May 21, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo

 

MECCA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Saudi King Salman, receiving dignitaries attending the annual Muslim haj pilgrimage, said on Saturday the kingdom had made progress in eradicating terrorism aimed at attacking its holy sites, state news agency SPA reported.

 

Saudi Arabia, which stakes its reputation on its guardianship of Islam’s holiest sites and organizing the haj, has been hit by bombings in recent years and uncovered plots to carry out attacks in Mecca.

 

"The limbs of terrorism have sought to harm the holy cities, paying no attention to their sanctity," SPA quoted King Salman as telling foreign dignitaries at a reception he held in Mecca, where more than 2 million pilgrims are performing haj.

 

"But the kingdom, by the grace of God and in cooperation with its sisters and friends, has made big successes in eradicating terrorism and has worked decisively and with determination to dry its sources," he added, without elaborating.

 

Salman also said Saudi Arabia had devoted all its material and human resources to ensure the safety of pilgrims who come from all over the world to perform the five-day ritual, a religious duty to be undertaken once in a lifetime by every able-bodied Muslim who can afford the journey.

 

"We are determined, with God's permission, to continue to provide the highest level of services for the two holy mosques ... to ensure the safety of those who seek the sacred house of God," he said.

 

The pilgrimage has frequently been hit by stampedes and fires. In the most recent incident, hundreds of pilgrims were killed in a crush two years ago.

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-09-03

[ilostmypassword]

The chief threat to the pilgrims is Saudi mismanagement of the Hadj.

[nasanews]

Saudi Arabia has been hit so hard by ISIS.

[zyphodb]

Shame they won't stop exporting Wahhabi terrorism to the rest of the world, they're the country giving Islam a bad name..... 

[Rancid]

Hang on, so one of the major supporters and enablers of world wide Sunni terrorism is making progress in tackling terrorism? Its almost as laughable as them being appointed to chair the Human Rights Commission. Sometimes I really do wonder if these things are said or done just to check if we are all dumbed down enough yet to not react to it.

[ilostmypassword]

Really, ideologically speaking, there's no significant difference between what the Saudi proselytize and what Isil believes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/opinion/saudi-arabia-an-isis-that-has-made-it.html

[Skeptic7]

Easy to claim and see through when even the most absurd of things is now considered "terrorism" in that ignorant, silly superstitious, human rights violating "cuntry". They are charging all the apostates and non-superstitious with "terrorism" and sentencing them...

 http://www.christianmessenger.in/saudi-arabia-declares-all-atheists-are-terrorists-in-new-law/

...to DEATH! 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/20/saudi-court-sentences-poet-to-death-for-renouncing-islam (this one has been reduced to 8 years and 800 lashes...death by torture)

 

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3427294/saudi-arabia-death-sentence-atheist-islam-prophet-mohammed/

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/18/raif-badawi-saudi-arabia-blogger