CIP Protests Saudi Fatwas Calling for the Destruction of Shia holy sites

CIP
July 24, 2008

http://www.islamicpluralism.org/385/cip-protests-saudi-fatwas-calling-for-the-destruction

The Center for Islamic Pluralism, an international non-profit organization operating in the U.S. and Britain, strenuously protests reports in the Saudi daily Al-Watan (The Nation), of July 24, that Saudi clerics have issued fatwas calling for the destruction of Shia holy sites in Iraq.

CIP calls on Saudi King Abdullah to suspend the authors of such fatwas from state clerical subsidies as a first step toward ending all government support to the Wahhabi structure in the kingdom.

CIP further appeals for an immediate end to all Wahhabi efforts at vandalism of Islamic architectural and cultural heritage, especially in the Saudi kingdom itself.

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