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Douglas Carpenter

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Thu Jan 8, 2015, 01:46 PM Jan 2015

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia condemns deadly attack on Paris magazine

RIYADH/PARIS — Saudi Arabia condemned Wednesday’s shooting attack on a French satirical magazine.

“...The Kingdom strongly condemns and denounces this cowardly terrorist act that is rejected by true Islamic religion as well as the rest of the religions and beliefs,” the Saudi Press Agency said, citing an official source.

Egypt’s leading Islamic authority, Al-Azhar, also condemned the attack, which killed at least 12 people including two police officers, the worst militant attack on French soil for decades.

Mohammed Moussaoui, president of the Union of French mosques, condemned the “hateful act,” and urged Muslims and Christians “to intensify their actions to give more strength to this dialogue, to make a united front against extremism.”

http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20150108229902
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