Islamist writer calls for Tunisians to unite in the face of 'extremism'

Libyan writer and thinker Ali Al-Salaabi has condemned the terrorist attack on a tourist hotel in Tunisia in which 38 locals and tourists were killed, Quds Press reported on Friday. “Violence and bloodshed is behaviour which is condemned by all standards, religions and values of humanity,” said the member of the International General Assembly of Muslim Scholars.

“The attackers targeted innocent people in Sousse,” added the well-known Islamist, “and yet Allah prohibits killing innocents, regarding them as more holy than the Ka’ba in Makkah.”

He called for the people of Tunisia to unite in order to isolate “extremism” and maintain the “successful political agreement” in order to undermine the terrorists’ plan to drag their country into a state of chaos.

In a press conference at the scene of the atrocity, Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi accused global jihadists of carrying out the attack and called for joint international efforts to face them.