The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has sent a message, thanking and appreciating Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Sheikh, the Grand Mufti of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, President of the Council of Senior Scholars and Chairman of the Board of Department of Scholarly Research and Ifta, for a Fatwa (Edict) on terror-financing. This came in response to the Mufti's report highlighting the decision of Council of the Senior Scholars for issuing a Fatwa (Edict) criminalizing financing of terrorism, which the Council considers, according to Shariah law, a form of helping for the spread of corruption, destabilization of security and a crime against innocent lives, money and private and public properties. --MORE
