KSA released a statement to punish the supporters of Muslim Brotherhood
Cairo: HelloEgy.
The Saudi Arabia government decided to punish anyone who participates in any violent actions outside the country of imprisonment between three to twenty years, out of their desire to keep security and stability and prevent damaging high rank of the kingdom.
The official WAS agency has published the decision, which came in its considerations that: “from our duty to prevent hostility and practical actions that may damage the regime of the kingdom and its security and stability….” The decision implies:”the imprisonment from three years at least to twenty years for anyone who participate in violent actions, in any way, outside the country, or even belong to any extremist religious group or organization classified, internationally or locally, as terrorist one”.
This punishment is also applied on anyone who supports these groups, adopts their ideas or ideologies in any possible way, show his\her emotional support, or present any kind of financial, emotional support, or incite for something like that in a verbal or written means”.
But if the perpetrator of such actions was an officer of military personnel, the penalty will be the imprisonment of not less than five years and not more than thirty years. The Royal decision also orders the formation of a committee of the ministries of Interior, Foreign Affairs, Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Call and Guidance, Justice, Office of the Ombudsman, and Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution. The mission of this committee is to make a list of these banned groups and organizations, this list will be updated periodically.
The Minister of Interior will be asked to submit to the King the incidents of arrest and investigation. The decision will be applied during only thirty days since then.
There are no exact numbers about the Saudis who participate in the violent actions in Syria, but the social networks, like Facebook, reveal from time to time that one of them was killed there. The last of them, till now, was a lawyer joined those fighters after he was engaged in some cases of terrorists, and for sorry, they affected him. But Western Diplomatic sources have estimated the number of the Saudis who fights in Syria, they called it “the land of jihad”, they were about 4000.
Some observers believe that the decision will also be applied on those who belong to extremist religious currents, including the terrorist organizations of ‘The Muslim Brotherhood’ and ‘Hizb Allah’ in Lebanon.
It was also explained that the decision reference to “organizations classified as terrorist locally or internationally”; it means directly the Muslim Brotherhood which was announced as a terrorist group in Egypt a month ago. All the states of the Arab League are committed to apply the terms of the decision.
Last week, in the show of “Al Thamena”, the Saudi writer Dawoud Alshryan has discussed the case of the Muslim preachers who deceive the young men and incite then to do violent actions (claiming that in this way they are making jihad) in Iraq, Syria and others. But actually they and their families enjoy vacations in western countries. This episode has raised numerous reactions and demand which caused to take a tough stand against extremist currents.
It was after only one day of calling the Qatari ambassador in the United Arab Emirates to tell him the strong protest of the government against what Youssif Al Qaradawy did. The last has attacked the government of the UAE on the official Qatari TV.
The observers think that the Saudi decision is just a start for next coming tougher procedures against all the extremist currents and their supporters, including Qatar, the member of the Gulf Cooperation Council and the main sponsor of Muslim Brotherhood organization.
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