Sunni Cleric Tortured and Murdered Saturday After Denouncing ISIS and Al-Qaeda Friday
Top Salafi cleric Samahan Abdel-Aziz delivered a fiery sermon Friday against ISIS and Al-Qaeda.
Abdel-Aziz was kidnapped, tortured and murdered on Saturday.
Yemeni protesters
NWA Online reported, via Religion of Peace:
The lifeless body of Yemen’s top Salafi cleric in the southern port city of Aden was found disfigured Sunday hours after he was abducted following an anti-extremism sermon, security officials said.
The influential cleric, Samahan Abdel-Aziz, also known as Sheikh Rawi, had delivered a fiery sermon against al-Qaida and IS branches in Yemen on Friday, officials said. His body was found bloodied and bearing signs of torture in Sheikh Othman, an area largely controlled by extremists, they added.
Abdel-Aziz was kidnapped by gunmen outside his mosque late Saturday in the pro-government neighborhood of Bureiqa, authorities said.
Also Sunday, Saudi Arabia’s Civil Defense said in a statement that a rocket fired from inside Yemen toward Saudi Arabia’s southern border region of Najran landed on a Saudi home, killing an 11-year-old child and wounding nine others in the family.
