Grand Mufti Condemns Consulate Attacks (sort of)

What the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia says to the Western Media (hat tipChad Evans):

Saudi Arabia's highest religious authority on Wednesday condemned as a sin the deadly shooting rampage at a U.S. consulate, and local newspapers reported one of the slain assailants was a former employee of the nation's religious police.
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Grand Mufti Abdul-Aziz al-Sheik said in a statement that anyone who enters the kingdom with the permission of its leaders has a promise of security and should not be attacked.

"What happened on Monday regarding the storming of the U.S. consulate in Jiddah, using weapons and explosives, killing innocent souls, petrifying secure ones, and undermining security in the kingdom are all forbidden acts and grand sins," al-Sheik said.

Read it again. The Grand Mufti never outright denounces the attack for attacking the embassy. Instead he claims it is wrong a) because the Americans are guests b) killed innocent souls, e.g. not Americans (no Americans were killed) c) undermines Saudi Arabian security--the Grand Mufti's job security is dependent on the House of Saud.

The MSM is far too willing to take the Grand Mufti's words at face value. Over the years his alleged condemnations of terrorism are never straight forward. For instance, here is an analysis done by Charles over at LGF. Notice that while the MSM gives the Grand Mufti a pass on his condemnation of 9/11, if you actually read his words you realize that in the Grand Mufti's mind 9/11 was wrong because it killed Muslims. When the Grand Mufti recently told young Muslims not to go to Iraq to join 'the resistance' not because the Jihad was wrong per se, but because it was a waste (ie, practical grounds).

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