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Saudi Arabia - Al Qaeda Raps Saudi for Male &
Female
Education Together in University
Agence France-Presse - 05 November, 2009
The
Yemen-based branch of Al Qaeda has accused the Custodian of the Two Holy
Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia of violating Islam by
launching the kingdom’s first public university where men and women can mix,
SITE Intelligence reported.
Ibrahim Al Rubaish, a Saudi member of Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP),
said in an audio message posted on the internet that the new King Abdullah
University of Science and Technology, where post-graduate science students and
researchers will work together, violated Islamic Shariah law.
“The father of the daughter or the brother of the sister or the husband of the
wife, how can they accept that these (women enroll) in this university, this
university that violated Shariah, violating even the system that this
government claims to apply?” Rubaish said, according to a transcript issued by
SITE, a US-based monitoring group.
“What (does one think) of a woman who studies with a Christian or a Jew, whose
study is being supervised by an atheist or a pagan?” said Rubaish, a former
Guantanamo prisoner who fled to Yemen after being repatriated to Saudi Arabia.
In a direct attack on the Saudi monarchy, Rubaish blamed the King, saying he is
moving the country towards “secularism”.
“If he is not able to distinguish between good and evil and what is good and harmful,
then how can he be put as the ruler over millions of people?”
Rubaish’s statement came in a 17 minute audio message posted to internet
jihadist forums on November 1, SITE added.
On September 23 Abdullah presided over the launch of the new research-focused
science university on the Red Sea coast north of Jeddah, whose student and
faculty body mixes men and women from all over the world.
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