King Fahd calls on Muslims to give up terrorism

The Saudi King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz and Crown Prince Abdullah have called on Muslims to give up terrorism. In a speech they addressed to the Saudi people and to the pilgrims on the occasion of Eid al-Adha holiday, they called for building bridges of amity among themselves.

The king and the crown prince urged in their speeches Muslims "to feel the needs of their brothers and seek what will be for the good and cooperation among Muslims."

They also called for strengthening the links to serving Islam and to get away from extremism and giving up terrorism which they described as "corruption on earth."

For his part, the Saudi general Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Bin Abdullah al-Sheikh called on Muslims at Arafat mountain speech to challenge economic, media, military and intellectual campaigns against Islam which describes the nation of terrorism and backwardness.