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Two Saudis kill mother for attempting to stop them from joining ISIS

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DUBAI- Driven by radical beliefs, twin brothers allegedly killed their mother in Saudi Arabia after she tried to stop them from joining Islamic State in Syria in a case that outraged Saudi Arabians worried about rising Islamic militancy.

 

The June 24 killing, in a country where respect for elders is seen as a bedrock of society, whipped up a storm of debate over the possible influence of a mediaeval Islamic scholar revered as a forerunner of Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam.

 

Saudi interior ministry spokesman General Mansour al-Turki said the pair were suspects in the killing.

 

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