Queen condemns ‘brutal acts’ on three continents, prays for victims’ families

AMMAN — Her Majesty Queen Rania on Friday expressed her condolences to the people of Kuwait over the killing of innocent civilians in a bombing at Al Imam Al Sadiq Mosque in the district of Sawaber in the eastern part of the Kuwaiti capital. 

On her Facebook page, she extended her condolences to the people of Kuwait over the grave incident and denounced the terrorists who have violated the “sanctity of Kuwait, its security, mosque and worshippers”.

She shared her recollections of the city, where she grew up and spent her childhood, and how Friday was always safe for everybody there and how Ramadan used to bring people together. 

“God bless these souls who ascended to heaven while prostrating themselves before God,” she said, expressing her sympathies to the victims’ families.

Twenty-seven worshippers were killed in the Friday attack, claimed by the Daesh terror group, according to Reuters.

The terrorist attacks that took place in Kuwait, Tunisia and France coincided with the  funeral of a young Jordanian who was killed when a stray shell from the Syrian town of Daraa hit a marketplace in the northern city of Ramtha. 

“On Friday, Ramadan 9, 2015, as Jordan was bidding farewell to its martyr, engineering student Abdul Munem Hourani, God bless his soul, a black cloud filled with grief covered Arab skies,” Her Majesty wrote in another Facebook post on Friday, referring to the attacks in Kuwait, Tunisia and France.

In Tunisia’s coastal city of Sousse, a young man dressed in shorts pulled an assault rifle out of his beach umbrella and killed 38 people, mostly tourists, according to The Associated Press.

In France a suspect allegedly severed his boss’s head and attached it to a fence before driving headlong into a gas factory in an apparent bid to blow it and himself sky high, Agence France-Presse reported. 

The sanctity of the holy month and the holy Friday did not deter the terrorists from committing their crimes and three continents were plagued by brutal acts that have no relation with Islam or humanitarian principles, the Queen said, questioning what religion these terrorists claim to espouse. 

Her Majesty condemned the brutal acts and the takfiri ideologies that violate the sanctity of worshippers, praying for those who were martyred in these incidents and asking God to protect all “our homelands” and restore peace and security.