Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has criticised the recent vow by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to make Saudi Arabia a bastion of moderate Islam.
"The term 'moderate Islam' is being lathered up again. The patent of moderate Islam belongs to the West. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam; Islam is one. The aim of using such terms is to weaken Islam," Erdoğan said in a speech at a program hosted in Ankara by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on women's entrepreneurship on Nov. 9.
"They are now trying to pump up this idea again ... We don’t want people to learn about religion from foreign facts," Erdoğan said
"They say we will return to moderate Islam, but they still don't give women the right to drive. Is there such a thing in Islam? I guess they will give this right when they turn to the moderate one," he added.
In September Saudi Arabia announced that, from June 2018, women would be allowed to drive cars, ending the world's only ban on female driving.
