Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Saudi Foreign Minister: Trump ‘Deserves a Lot of Credit’ for Effort to Unite People of Faith

Speaking at a joint press conference with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday, Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir commended President Donald Trump for an international trip designed to unite people of different faiths to address a threat faced by all of humanity around the globe regardless of their religion.
“The President deserves a lot of credit for taking this step, making his first visit outside the U.S. to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam and land of the two holy Mosques, and then going to Israel and then going to the Vatican to deal with the Jewish world and with the Christian world in order to try to bring the three religions together,” al-Jubeir said. “This is the way to proceed.”
“This is the way we move from enmity to partnership,” al-Jubeir said. “This is a fight – not a clash of civilization, this is a fight for civilization.”
“It’s as the President said, it’s good versus evil, and good includes everybody – Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, everyone.” READ MORE