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Syrian Suicide Bomber Kills Muslim Cleric, Wounds Over 80
Thursday, March 21, 2013 19:56
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday condemned a mosque attack earlier in the day that killed a prominent Islamic scholar and 42 others in the capital Damascus.
Mohammad Saed Ramadan al-Bouti, 84, was delivering a lecture at al-Eman Mosque in central Damascus’ district of al-Mazraa when a suicide bomber detonated himself from inside the mosque. At least 84 others were wounded.
As Assad put it, the blood of the cleric and his fellow martyrs will not go in vain.
Al-Bouti, born in 1929 in the village of Ayn Dewar in northern Syria, was a retired dean and a professor at the College of Islamic Law at Damascus University. He preaches very often and is highly respected by many of the leading scholars in the Muslim world. MOREHERE
