Somali Cleric Association Call For Protest To Denounce Madina Attack

Somali Cleric Association has called for a mass protest on Monday in the country to denounce terrorist bombing in one of holiest Muslim towns, Madina earlier this month.

“We call for mass protest on Monday to denounce terror attacks in the holy city of Madina and other parts of the Muslim world,” SCA said.

Somali Cleric Association has strongly condemned cowardly terrorist bombing in one of holiest Muslim towns, Madina earlier this month.

The clerics said the blasts ‘prove that those renegades… have violated everything that is sacred’.

They expressed ‘profound sadness’ over the last Monday’s terrorist attack that killed at least five Saudi security personnel and injured several others.

“The Somali Cleric Association which has been shocked by this gruesome act – condemns this incident in the strongest of terms and considers it an act of enmity and hatred towards Islamic rituals,” said SCA chairman Sheikh Bashiir on Saturday.

Saudi Arabia identified on Thursday suspects in two of the three attacks that struck outside the sprawling mosque where the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is buried in the western city of Madina.

In a statement released by the Interior Ministry late Thursday, authorities said the Madina bomber in Monday’s apparently coordinated attacks was 26-year-old Saudi national Na’ir al-Nujiaidi al-Balawi.

The ministry said investigations following the attacks led to the arrests of 19 suspects, seven Saudi and 12 Pakistani nationals. No other details were immediately available.