AhlulBayt News Agency

source : Rasid
Saturday

17 April 2010

7:30:00 PM
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Saudi Wahhabi extremists force Shia worshippers to pray on the street

Saudi Shia worshippers in Khobar city were forced to perform their prayers in their neighborhood streets as wahhabi extremists prevented them from using a nearby Sunni mosques they used to perform their prayers in it.

Saudi Shia worshippers in Khobar city were forced to perform their prayers in their neighborhood streets as wahhabi extremists prevented them from using a nearby Sunni mosques they used to perform their prayers in it.

Several worshippers informed that a long bearded and short thobes, a typical look of wahhabi extremist, came from outside the neighborhood and prevented them from performing their prayers in a Sunni mosque.

Saudi authorities gave their permission to Saudi Shia to perform their prayers in this Sunni mosques.

The wahhabi extremists came along with the mosque custodian and started a heated dispute that was about to reach to a clash.

The wahhabi extremists insulted the Shia Imam, Sayed Mohammad Al-Nasser, which he took it calmly and ordered the worshippers to leave the mosques to defuse the situation.

Alsayed Mohammad Al-Nasser performed the prayers on the street next to the mosque they were forced to leave.

Sources informed that a Shia delegation is planning to meet the officials in Eastern Province Governance (EMARA) to bring to their attention what happened.

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