Riyadh: Our const is Quran and A-Wahab call is not ideology

By: Abdulali

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia: The Saudi government on Friday strongly criticized the Libyan president Mu'ammar Gaddafi after he accused the Wahabi ideology.

In an interview with an American TV channel, Col. Mu’ammar Gaddafi said that Wahabi ideology in the kingdom is responsible for the appearance of Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups.

Gaddafi also accused the system in the kingdom that it is based on fundamentalism.

According to reports the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia denounced muscularly these declarations calling them “completely false”. The government said Saudi constitution is the Holy Quran and the Sunnah of His prophet (S), and Sheikh Mohammad Ibn-Abdil-Wahhab's invitation is not an ideology from the ideologies but a reformative invitation that is distant from exaggeration and extremism.

The government furthermore said that its sorrowful that such fabrications came from an Arab country leader the kingdom stood to its side in the darkest circumstances that passed by it.

It is strange that these declarations aimed at demolition of Arab solidarity bases came in a time when the Islamic world is passing through difficult circumstances, the government said.

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