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Fahd warns ulemas against using mosques to attack govt
MEDINA (Saudi Arabia). Dec 21: King Fahd of Saudi Arabia has warned his country's religious leaders against using their mosques to attack the government, .the Saudi press agency reported today, reports AFP.
The pulpits are reserved for very specific business and ‘ should' not be exploited by some to harm others," the King said Saturday in the western Holy City of Medina in a speech to religious leaders.
"Our doors are open to all those who wish to criticize" the government's policy, he said, but added that he was surprised that clerics had resorted to cassettes and publications to express their criti-
cism.
"Have we reached the point of being carried away by foreign influences alien to our nation? He asked.
The King urged his subjects to come and sec the government and express their pptn-ions orally, or better still, in writing.
His warning came following a report December 13 in the British Sunday Times newspaper about a conflict between the rulers and religious institutions in Saudi Arabia.
the paper said the retirement of seven clerics, attributed to old age and failing health, was a result Of the conflict.
Riyadh categorically dis-
missed the allegations and denied the existence of such a conflict. King Fahd on Saturday alluded to the newspaper article. saying "you have learned or read what is being said currently overseas about our coun-try."
In October, a Saudi opposition source said in a confidential document made available to AFP in Paris that significant numbers of the Saudi religious hierarchy had called for major reforms.
The .document called for a strong indictment of the country s political, economic and social conditions and recommended radical changes in various areas.
In September, the Snudl Council of Grand Ulema — the highest religious authority in the Kingdom — denied that Its leader, Sheikh Abdel Aziz Ibn Baz, was Involved in an appeal for reform addressed to King Fahd by Koranic teachers and students.
On March 1, King Fahd announced the creation of a 60-member consultative council of appointees — promised during the Gulf crisis — but only its president has been chosen.
At the end of the Gulf war in February 1991 diplomats said religious leaders had protested the presence of "infidels" on Saudi territory, In reference to the multinational forces that ousted Iraqi troops from Kuwait.