RIYADH, Oct 14: King Abdullah met prominent Iraqi Sunni and Shia Muslim clerics on Saturday and stressed the need for tolerance and peace to overcome the current sectarian strife in their country.
The Iraqi religious scholars are here to attend a conference organised by the Organisation of Islamic Conference to push for sectarian peace in Iraq. The meeting of leading religious scholars from Iraq is scheduled to be held on Thursday and Friday. Last week, a preparatory meeting of Iraqi scholars was held in Makkah to formulate a document on reconciliation between Sunnis and Shia communities in Iraq. The document, known as the Makkah Declaration, is to be adopted at the scholars’ meeting later this week.
