Al-Qaeda group warns Saudi Arabia’s reformist head over ‘sinful projects’
Dubai — Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has warned Saudi Arabia’s reformist Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over his "sinful projects", in a bulletin released Friday. Prince Mohammed has spearheaded a string of policy changes in ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia, including re-introducing cinemas and allowing women to drive. "The new era of Bin Salman replaced mosques with movie theatres," the Yemen-based jihadist group said in its Madad news bulletin, picked up by the US’s SITE Intelligence Group. He "substituted books that belonged to the imams ... with absurdities of the atheists and secularists from the East and the West and opened the door wide for corruption and moral degradation", it said.
The Sunni jihadist group AQAP has flourished amid a complex war in Yemen, where Saudi Arabia heads a military alliance battling Shiite Huthi rebels. In its statement, AQAP slammed April’s World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Royal Rumble event in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah...
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