MAKKAH/MADINA: The Imams of the Two Holy Mosques rejected in their Friday sermons calls for demonstrations and protests, deeming them the “cause of sedition and anarchy, and disruptions to interests”. The Imam of the Haram in Makkah, Sheikh Osama Bin Abdullah Khaiyat, said the “instigation of the devil exists, and in this age his whisperings take countless forms”. “In modern media channels and websites,” Khaiyat said, “the whisperings have found unlimited space to promote what every devout believer who wants good and has mercy for Allah's worshippers believes is evil, a cause of sedition and anarchy, and an attempt to disrupt security,” he said. In Madina, the Imam of the Prophet's Mosque, Sheikh Salah Al-Budair, warned against “contradicting consensus, following callers for sedition and the enemies whose hearts are filled with hatred for Islam and its people and envy for the land of Islam”.
