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Meet Saudi Arabia’s top cleric. Like Isis, he also thinks churches should be destroyed

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Today a quick game of ‘spot the difference.’

First, here are some photos, released yesterday, of Isis pulling down the crosses on ancient churches and desecrating Christian holy sites in Mosul, Iraq. They admit to doing this because they wish to destroy all records of pre-Islamic civilisation and because, they say, they are following Islamic law.

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89 du3 121 And then secondly we have Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti speaking at a conference in Kuwait on Tuesday.

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