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Senior Saudi Cleric: Preachers Not Doing Enough To Fight Extremism

Saudi Minister for Islamic Affairs Sheikh Saleh bin Abd Al-Aziz Al-Sheikh has said that mosque preachers are not doing enough to fight extremism.

He said that they must not "be silent on the deviants belonging to Islam" and that the responsibility to protect the youth from extremism fell also on clerics.

Source: Al-Hayat, London, July 5, 2008

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