Riyadh, Oct 9 (ANI): Saudi Arabia is facing a risk of an external cyber war aimed at instigating violence and religious sectarianism, senior officials in the kingdom have claimed.
"There are about 6,000 websites engaged in spreading extremism across the world.
The origin of these sites that have direct link with terrorism is the West," the Gulf News quoted Dr Abdul Rahman Al Hadlaq, director general of the Intellectual Security Department at the Ministry of Interior, as saying.
Dr Al Hadlaq said there is a dubious attempt to target religion while introducing the concepts of terrorism through the Internet.
"The Western experts label some religious sites as sites engaged in promoting violence and extremism," he said.
Meanwhile, Shaikh Abdul Monem Al Moshawwah, head of the 'Silent Campaign' to Correct Extremist Thoughts under the Ministry of Islamic Affairs and Endowments, warned against the external sectarian agencies who misuse Facebook and other sites to provoke Shiites in the Kingdom in order to create sedition and unrest.
"About 98 per cent of those who work behind these acts are not Saudis. It was revealed when tracked down their IDs that they are from either Iran or Iraq," he said.
Al Moshawwah noted while noting that all the websites that called for making troubles in the Shiite-dominated eastern region of Qateef were external forces and there were only two per cent of Saudis among them.
He pointed out that Saudi Arabia is facing a cyber war being waged by external forces who spread false reports with an objective of subversion.
"The Campaign headed by me tried its best to hold dialogue with these agencies but they refused to do so. This is because of their ulterior motive of instigating violence and unrest in the Kingdom," he added. (ANI)
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