MINISTER OF ISLAMIC AFFAIRS, ENDOWMENTS, CALL AND GUIDANCE SHEIKH SALIH AL A SHEIKH RECEIVED HERE TODAY SPANISH JUSTICE MINISTER JUAN FERNANDO LOPEZ AGUIDAR. THEY REVIEWED ISSUES PERTAINING TO THE SITUATION OF MUSLIMS IN EUROPE IN GENERAL AND IN PARTICULAR IN SPAIN. SPEAKING ON THE OCCASION, THE SPANISH MINISTER LAUDED THE PIONEERING ROLE BEING PLAYED BY SAUDI ARABIA TOWARDS THE EXTREMIST AND DEVIANT GROUPS. HE HAILED THE KINGDOM'S SUPPORTING STAND TO SPAIN TOWARDS THE TERROR ACTS WHICH TOOK PLACE IN THE COUNTRY IN MARCH 2004. THE SPANISH MINISTER UNDERLINED THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND COORDINATION FOR CONFRONTING THE TERROR ACTS. ON HIS PART, AL AL-SHEIKH REITERATED THE KEENNESS OF THE KINGDOM ON SUPPORTING THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IN ITS EFFORTS TO CONFRONT TERRORISM. HE POINTED OUT THAT ISLAM DOES NOT TOLERATE TERRORISM. HE SAID THE KINGDOM BELIEVES IN THE IMPORTANCE OF MERGER OF THE MUSLIM COMMUNITIES IN THE SOCIETIES WHERE THEY ARE LIVING AND PLAYING A POSITIVE AND INFLUENTIAL ROLE IN THE COUNTRIES THEY ARE RESIDING. MOREOVER, AL-A SHEIKH SAID THE KINGDOM HAS BEEN URGING THE MUSLIM COMMUNITIES TO RESPECT THE REGULATIONS OF THE COUNTRIES WHERE THEY ARE LIVING BUT TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE IMPORTANCE OF PRESERVING THEIR ISLAMIC IDENTITY.
