Islam needs no help in that department.

(AFP) – Saudi King Abdullah said Friday that world silence over Israeli “war crimes” in the Gaza Strip was “inexcusable” and would only breed more violence in the future.

“We see the blood of out brothers in Palestine being shed in collective massacres that have spared nobody, and in war crimes against humanity,” the king said in a speech carried by state news agency SPA.

Abdullah also lashed out at religious extremism, urging “Muslim leaders and scholars to … stand up to those trying to hijack Islam and portray it as a religion of hatred, extremism, and terrorism.”

“It is a shame and a disgrace that these terrorists kill, mutilate (dead bodies), and proudly spread (pictures) in the name of religion,” he said.

His remarks were an apparent reference to Islamic State jihadists operating in Iraq and Syria.

ISIL has declared a “caliphate” in areas it controls in the two Arab states, with their lightning advance in Iraq in June seen as also posing a threat to Saudi Arabia and Jordan.