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Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah issued a royal decree on Monday that punishes citizens who fight in conflicts outside the kingdom, with prison sentences ranging from three to 20 years in jail.
Many young Saudi men appear to have been encouraged to join the fight in Syria by influential Saudi clerics who follow the kingdom’s ultraconservative religious Wahhabi doctrine and view the war as a struggle between Syria’s Sunni majority and President Bashar Assad’s Alawite, Shiite-backed minority. The group said the kingdom secretly tolerates citizens fighting abroad to keep them from carrying out attacks in Saudi Arabia. |
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Categories: Arab World, Asia, Saudi Arabia
I suppose this will be the jail awaiting them:
http://www.themuslimtimes.org/2013/04/uncategorized/you-wont-believe-this-inside-saudi-arabias-prison-for-terrorists
To others this would more sound like a ‘reward’.
These are steps that can eliminates if not stop crimes in our societies. Keep it Saudis BOYLUQMAN listen to Westerners. Their evils on earth
In the name of THE ALMIGHTY, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful
THE SHAHADAH
It would be most beneficial for ” The King ” to reflect deeply on The Spiritual aspects of The Shahadah, and conducive to the well-being of the Socio-Economic, Political environment within the borders of Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) Motherland, and beyond.
We’re in the 21st Century. Our Global Village calls for Societies Ethical Approaches among Nations. Without Genuine and Sincere Knowledge, Justice, Human Rights for both Genders, Societies’ Welfare cannot be materialised, hence PEACE.
Can ” The King ” take the lead to actualising the Noble Qur’an’s calls for PEACE among Nations.
Umar Solim – England
Swords can win territories but not hearts.
Force can bend heads but not minds.