Saudi Awqaf minister attacks revolutions .. Here are his most controversial statements

Saudi Minister of Islamic Affairs Abdullatif Al-Sheikh has returned to the spotlight recently by attacking the Syrian revolution, days after he was attacked by the late Egyptian intellectual Sayyid Qutb and the Mauritanian Sheikh Mohamed Hassan Ould Daddou, recalling many of his positions that flirt with the orientations of the Authority.

Minister Al-Sheikh is a close circle of King Salman bin Abdul Aziz, where he was his special adviser when he was the last prince of Riyadh. When Salman became crown prince in 2012, Al-Sheikh was appointed head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. The influence of the awakening movement in this body, which has wide powers.

In June, King Salman issued an order appointing Sheikh Al-Sheikh as head of the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, one of the most important ministries in the country, succeeding Al-Sheikh, who served as minister for 15 years, starting in 2000. He was replaced by the director of the Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University, Suleiman Aba al-Khail, who is known for his hostility to the Awakening movement. However, he remained in office for only two months, before his predecessor returned to his place.

The rise of Abdul Latif coincided with the campaign of mass arrests against the Awakening movement that began in September 2015, and it is believed that the former minister Saleh Al-Sheikh was isolated for not following this wave, especially as he had previously objected to a fourth massacre in Egypt, while his successor Abdul Latif The most representative representatives of the mainstream Jamaat-ul-Jaahiliyya movement have tended to express the policy of Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, and we will summarize his most prominent positions and controversial statements:

In a seminar held last week in Riyadh, Abdullatif Al-Sheikh said: "Syria is a strong country, but if it is what it was, look at what became its people, homeless, poor, destitute, humiliating, wandering all the countries of the world. Their emotions to move these streets, and get what happened from them, and became Syria as you see. "

Dozens of activists denounced the statements by saying that he had shortened the war crimes committed by the Syrian regime by saying "even if they were not." Then he blamed the Syrian people, although Saudi Arabia was at the head of the countries supporting the revolution and accused him of making those statements. To justify Saudi Arabia's new orientation towards normalization with the regime.

2 - About a week ago, the Saudi Minister of Islamic Affairs attacked the revolutions during a speech before a gathering of Saudi official advocates in Riyadh. "They are the deadly poisonous revolutions of the Arab Muslim man, and the devastation and destruction of the country, the people, the green and the land. This is all because of the seditionists. And the attempt to seize power. "

3- In the middle of this month, activists circulated a section of Abdul Latif Al-Sheikh during his discussion of a master's thesis at a Saudi university. He objected to the researcher writing the name of the Mauritanian Sheikh Mohamed Hassan Ould Aldou, .

The minister also expressed his hatred of Sayyid Qutb when he described the student as a "professor" and said he was a "big terrorist" and a "malignant saboteur." But criticized the minister what the student said about the literary taste of Qutb, and considered that this description can be "passed" to the patrons, such as Umm Kulthum and Abdul Halim Hafez and not pole.

4 - The minister raised great anger during the last Hajj season when he praised Israel, and attacked Qatar without naming it, said in a television interview. "What raised the wonder that the State of Israel to what we know about it much did not prevent Muslim pilgrims from traveling to the Kingdom to perform the duty, As we know, the pilgrims of the House of God were prevented. " This comes in the context of Saudi claims that Qatar is preventing its citizens from performing Hajj.

5. In May 2018, Al-Sheikh wrote in his Twitter account that the Muslim Brotherhood, with its branches and allies, was working openly and invisibly to seize religious, educational and charitable posts in preparation for the coming spring.

He also wrote in April of the same year that the fight against the Muslim Brotherhood is not wishful and hollow statements, but requires action like Mohammed bin Salman.

6. In March 2014, when Al-Sheikh was the head of the Propaganda Authority, a video was published - from a funeral board - warning the Saudis to "be dragged behind those who call for the removal of the rulers" and to overthrow the rule of the Saud family, saying that without " The Al Saud can not protect their asses, not only their mahrams. "

This was in the context of his defense of the current Jamia known to his powers to power, where he said at the same meeting, "We are serious, and we are security men, as long as we adhere to the book and the year, and loyal to our country, and proud of it."