RNA – During a meeting with members of the Council of Scholars of Baghdad and al-Anbar, Ayatollah Afif al-Nablusi, the Friday prayer leader of the Lebanese city of Sidon said the attacks launched against Muslims throughout the Islamic world must be stopped through the unity of the believers and noble people of the Islamic ummah.
The Lebanese Shi’a scholar said that the current events in the region prove the need for increased efforts to reduce and overcome the religious tensions and sensitivities in the Islamic world because Takfiris are a danger to all humankind.
“Instead of paying attention to country and nation, they only think about harming the greater Islamic society,” the director of the Sidon’s Imam al-Sadiq Seminary said.
He reiterated that the Western world "does not respect or value the blood of Muslims, which flows every day until they realize that terrorism will not only destroy the region but it threatens the entire world."
Ayatollah al-Nabulsi pointed out that the problems of Muslim countries will spread to other countries and urged Western countries to stop supporting terrorism and to try to eradicate this phenomenon.
Shaykh Abdul-Qadir al-Alousi, the chairman of the Council of Scholars of Baghdad and al-Anbar said: “We came to Lebanon to cooperate in order to achieve the project of Islamic unity and fight against ISIL Takfiri terrorists.”
The Iraqi Sunni cleric noted the latest developments in Iraq and said that the increase of terrorist attacks in Iraq coincided with the operations to liberate ISIL-held regions by the Iraqi security forces.
“Through these crimes, the terrorists are keeping attention away from their actions in order to create sedition, but through unity and solidarity, the Iraqi people have stood against them,” he said.
He pointed out that the terrorists’ attempts to fight the Iraqi people are surely doomed to failure.
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