The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Anwar Gargash, confirmed that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia took the lead against the heinous crime at the Pensacola base in Florida, the United States of America, explaining that "the Kingdom did well in word and deed."
Gargash said in a tweet on the social networking site «Twitter» that “the immediate Saudi condemnation, at all levels, of an individual terrorist crime is the best response to those who do not wish the good of the sister Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its reputation.”
He added, "The official and popular Saudi took the lead against the heinous crime in Pensacola, and did well in word and deed."
In addition, the head of the Saudi Shura Council, Sheikh Dr. Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Ibrahim Al Sheikh, condemned the "criminal act carried out by a Saudi student in Florida," and the resulting death and injury of a number of innocent people.
In a press statement yesterday, he praised the guidance of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, to the security services, in cooperation with its American theory, to access information that ensures the disclosure of the circumstances of the tragic accident.
Dr. Abdullah Al-Sheikh stressed that this act does not represent the people of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the human values it carries that its tolerant middle religion, nor its culture that has long found presence and acceptance among the peoples of the world, extending sincere condolences to the families of the victims, and his wishes for a speedy recovery for the injured.
In the same context, the Muslim World League condemned the incident, and the League confirmed by its Secretary General Sheikh Dr. Muhammad bin
Abdul Karim Al-Issa, "her strong condemnation of this criminal act, which is at the forefront of crimes punishable by the most severe penalties in Islamic law."
Al-Essa pointed out that “this horrific felony represents only the criminal inclinations of its owner, and that Islam and all Muslims are innocent of them,” stressing that “criminal delinquency has no religion or nationality, and that this sad news has hurt everyone.”
The Saudi Minister of Islamic Affairs, Da`wah and Guidance, Sheikh Dr. Abd al-Latif bin Abdulaziz Al-Sheikh, denounced the incident and described it as an “awful crime.” He affirmed that “his perpetrator does not represent the Saudi people and does not represent the true religion. Religious, ethnic, or regional basis.
He continued: “We do not forget the humanitarian work that the Saudi Taliban did, Jasser Al Rakah and Dhiab Al-Yami, when they rescued two children pulled by the waves of the river, but they died by drowning in the US state of Massachusetts in this way, and also what the Saudi envoy Ahmed Al-Muhaimid, who risked his life and saved An elderly person drowned in the Dockland River in the Australian city of Melbourne, "noting that these actions are what the Islamic religion calls and its noble teachings and noble principles, and it is also consistent with the customs and traditions of Saudi society."