According to this Gulf News article, a senior Saudi cleric is again warning young Saudis about going to Iraq to take up arms. Sheikh Saleh bin Fauzan Al-Fauzan sees these youths as ‘preachers of evil’ and calls for family and friends to turn them into the authorities before they can go to fight.

The article also reports on efforts to construct a security fence along the Saudi-Iraqi border.

Those who go to fight in Iraq ‘are preachers of evil’
Mariam Al Hakeem

Riyadh: Prominent Saudi Islamic scholar and member of the Senior Scholars’ Commission Shaikh Saleh Bin Fauzan Al Fauzan has warned Saudi youths against going to Iraq to fight in the war-torn country.

While labelling those who go to fight in Iraq as “preachers of evil,” he urged everyone to tell the authorities about such people. Shaikh Al Fauzan was speaking to members of the teaching faculty at Imam Mohammad Bin Saudi Islamic University here on Tuesday.

According to the scholar it is obligatory on the part of all to admonish those youths who are eager to go to Iraq to fight. He added it was important to convince them of the dangers involved in their move.

“If they are obstinate and insist on going, then security officials should be given a tip-off about such people,” he said.
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