Nice attack condemned in Middle East

AFP, CAIRO: Middle Eastern countries and leading Muslim clerics on Friday condemned a truck attack that killed at least 84 revellers in the Med­iterranean resort of Nice on France’s national holiday.
Sunni Islam’s leading centre of learning, Al-Azhar, said the “vile terrorist attack” contradicted Islam and called for “uniting efforts to defeat
terrorism and rid the world of its evil.”
Tunisia said that the attacker, who police said held joint French-Tunisian citizenship, had committed an act of “extreme cowardice” and expressed solidarity with France against the “scourge of terrorism.”
At least two children were among the dead after a gunman rammed a truck through a crowd of thousands celebrating Bastille Day on the French Riviera on Thursday evening.
Prominent Egyptian Muslim cleric Shawki Allam condemned the assailant as an “extremist”.
“People who commit such ugly crimes are corrupt of the earth, and follow in the footsteps of Satan... and are cursed in this life and in the hereafter.”
The six Gulf Arab states issued a joint statement saying that they “strongly” condemned the “terrorist” act in Nice.
“The Gulf Cooperation Council states stand in solidarity with the French republic following this cowardly criminal incident whose perpetrators have been stripped of all moral and human values,” the bloc’s secretary general, Abdullatif al-Zayani, said.
Regional heavyweight Saudi Arabia issued its own statement condemning the “heinous terrorist” act, adding that it stands in “solidarity” with France and will “cooperate with it in confronting terrorist acts in all their forms.”

 

Nice attack condemned in Middle East

AFP, CAIRO: Middle Eastern countries and leading Muslim clerics on Friday condemned a truck attack that killed at least 84 revellers in the Mediterranean resort of Nice on Frances national holiday. Sunni Islams leading centre of learning, Al-Azhar, said the vile terrorist attack contradicted Islam and called for uniting efforts to defeat terrorism and rid the world of its evil. Tunisia said that the attacker, who police said held joint French-Tunisian citizenship, had committed an act of extreme cowardice and expressed solidarity with France against the scourge of terrorism. At least two children were among the dead after a gunman rammed a truck through a crowd of thousands celebrating Bastille Day on the French Riviera on Thursday evening. Prominent Egyptian Muslim cleric Shawki Allam condemned the assailant as an extremist. People who commit such ugly crimes are corrupt of the earth, and follow in the footsteps of Satan... and are cursed in this life and in the hereafter. The six Gulf Arab states issued a joint statement saying that they strongly condemned the terrorist act in Nice. The Gulf Cooperation Council states stand in solidarity with the French republic following this cowardly criminal incident whose perpetrators have been stripped of all moral and human values, the blocs secretary general, Abdullatif al-Zayani, said. Regional heavyweight Saudi Arabia issued its own statement condemning the heinous terrorist act, adding that it stands in solidarity with France and will cooperate with it in confronting terrorist acts in all their forms.