New Delhi: Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to India Faisal-al-Trad walked out of a international conference in New Delhi on Saturday, allegedly offended by senior lawyer and former minister Ram Jethmalani's statement that the Wahabi sect of Islam inspires terrorism.
Jethmalani, at an international conference of jurists on global terrorism, said that "Wahabi terrorism" indoctrinated "rubbish" in the minds of young people to carry out terrorist attacks. He allegedly faulted India for having friendly relations with a country that supported Wahabi terrorism.
The Saudi Arabia's ambassador was seen walking out of the conference after Jethmalani’s address to the conference.
Adesh Aggarwala, the conference’s organizer, said the Ambassador returned to the even after Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily's statement that the views expressed by Jethmalani were not that of the government.
Moily, in his address, said that terrorism cannot be attributed to any particular religion.
It was unfortunate that the entire Islam as a religion was being blamed for terrorism, Jethmalani said, adding that "there are also Hindu terrorists and Buddhist terrorists."
Terming Non-Aligned Movement and Panchsheel as evil, the former Union Minister said India should align with forces of good to combat the forces of evil. "India and its foreign ministers must learn to reassess the doctrines of past."
He said India's foreign policy establishment should be courageous to shun country's relationships with its "enemies".
Referring to Jethmalani's comments, Justice Awn S Al-Khasawneh, a judge of the International Court of Justice, asked him not "to make sweeping statements."
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