Bahrain Senior Cleric: Shia Killing in Egypt, Humiliation of Humanity

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Bahrain’s Shia Leader Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim described last week’s Shia killing in Egypt’s Giza province as an example of humiliating the entire humanity.In his Friday prayer sermon at Imam Sadeq (AS) Mosque in Manama’s Diraz district, Ayatollah Qassim also said the massacre was a heinous one and a testament to the ignorance of its perpetrators.On Sunday, June 23, extremist Takfiri mobs attacked a house in a village in Giza province of Egypt and killed four Shia Muslims in the house including Allameh Sheikh Hassan Shehata, spiritual leader of Shia Muslims in the country.Ayatollah Qassim urged all Muslims to stand up against these seditious acts and against those who consider their fellow Muslims as infidels.“There are some ignorant people who have a wrong understanding of Islam and Islamic schools and try to exploit divisive issues to deal a blow to the Muslim Ummah’s unity,” he said.The senior cleric underlined that such people who fan the flames of discord and disunity in the Muslim world are accomplices in such crimes as they set the ground for these atrocities to take place.Ayatollah Qassim also said that not only from a religious point of view but also from a political one it is unacceptable for the Egyptian government to simply ignore this gruesome crime.Elsewhere in his sermon, the Ayatollah referred to the tragedy of desecration of mosques in Bahrain, saying that some mosques are attacked, the construction or reconstruction of some others is prohibited, and worshippers are banned from praying in some other mosques.He said these policies by the ruling regime are meant to incite sectarian and tribal sedition and fomenting divisions in Bahrain.Ayatollah Qassim went on to say that both Shia and Sunni Muslims in Bahrain must realize that this policy is a miserable political game played by the regime. /129