Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Saudi Minister of Islamic Affairs Abdul Latif Al Sheikh described the thought of the “Sahwa” movement, which began to emerge in the eighties of the last century in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as “destructive,” and saw that his country was “stricken with harm and evil.” “Awakening,” as he put it.
And the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, had confirmed, in statements in 2017, that Saudi Arabia had spread the awakening project after 1979, and said that the Kingdom was not so strict in the past, adding: “We are just going back to what we were, moderate, moderate Islam.” open to the world and to all religions.
In an interview with the Saudi “Al-Ikhbariya” channel, on Sunday evening, the Saudi Minister of Islamic Affairs said that his country witnessed “a programmed wave of those with polluted thought, the Brotherhood’s thought, which was called a softening of the awakening, and it is not awakening, but rather destructive.”
He added: “There was a fierce attack by the Muslim Brotherhood, represented by what is falsely called the movement of the Awakening. They did an act that no one had done before or after them in the Kingdom, to try to disperse the people of this country, and they actually dispersed many of the people of this country and distracted them from paying attention to their interests, their knowledge and their homeland towards Demolition, destruction, dismantling and atonement.”
And Abdul Latif Al-Sheikh continued by saying: “The Kingdom was fed by their harm and gave them good tidings of what they are doing of malicious actions inside the homeland, then their thought developed into a call for jihad and pushed simple and ignorant youth to the furnace of strife in other countries, and to carry out actions that the Saudi government or the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia did not and will not accept.”