People shocked, outraged - assassination attempt on Prince Muhammad bin Naif

[The Straight Story]

People shocked, outraged
Arab News


JEDDAH/RIYADH/ALKHOBAR: Shock, disgust and dismay are the responses from people across the Kingdom to the Thursday-night assassination attempt on Prince Muhammad bin Naif, assistant interior minister for security affairs.

Compounding people’s disdain for the attack was the fact that it occurred less than 100 km from Makkah during the holy month of Ramadan.

Minister of Justice Muhammad Al-Eissa thanked Allah for keeping Prince Muhammad safe from the terror attack, while Muslim World League (MWL) Secretary-General Abdullah Al-Turki congratulated Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah, Crown Prince Sultan and Second Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Prince Naif on Prince Muhammad’s narrow escape. The MWL secretariat condemned the terror attack as a deceptive act.

Members of the public, however, were more vociferous in their reactions. “This is against everything that Islam teaches us. Our religion teaches us to be benevolent; it teaches us not to resort to violence. This is forbidden and absolutely unjustified,” said Lama Al-Sharif, a Jeddah-based student of international relations. “Yes, there is frustration among a section of people regarding our foreign policy, but what happened on Thursday night is deplorable and utterly un-Islamic.”

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[timeforpeace]

1. Must be a translation problem. He couldn't have said "our religion teaches us not to resort to

violence."

[Posteritatis]

2. When a cabinet-level security official gets suicide bombed in his own office.. (nt)

[Dogmudgeon]

3. Didn't they just put down an insurrection by Prince Bandar?

--d!