Rasa – Hujjat al-Islam Abdullah Saleh said, “As long as power is in the hands of the Al Khalifah, discourse on political reform isn’t possible because the treachery of this dynasty has become clear to the nation.” RNA – In an exclusive interview with the Rasa News Agency, Hujjat al-Islam Abdullah Saleh, the deputy general-secretary of Bahrain’s Islamic Action Society, referred to the harsh attacks by the Al Khalifah regime on Ayatollah Sayyid Abdullah al-Ghurayfi and added, “Ayatollah al-Ghurayfi is a well-known figure among the Bahraini people and the Al Khalifah regime. He’s one of the great religious scholars in Bahrain. However, a number of Salafis and their allies in this country, who are always against the people and their rights. As they rose up against them to spread sedition among the people, they planted the seeds of hatred among the people of this country.”
Regarding about the possibility of the Al Khalifah regime repeating the scenario of Ayatollah Isa Qasim, the deputy general secretary of the Bahraini Islamic Association said, “I think the regime isn’t able to distance Ayatollah al-Ghurayfi from the political and social scene of Bahrain because he’s renowned for moderation and tries to raise issues which are against the regime. Although there are some who are opposed to him and are trying to attribute revolutionary tendencies to him, the whole process is that the Bahraini people and their scholars are demanding the fulfillment of the demands which are their right that Ayatollah Qasim has recently emphasized the impossibility of denying them.”
He said, “Although there are two discourses of political reform and revolutionary action in Bahrain, it must be said that as long as power is in the hands of the Al Khalifah, it cannot enter through the discourse of political reform because the treachery of this family for the Bahraini people, who all agree on the realization of their rightful claims, has become clear. The regime doesn’t care about these demands.”
Hujjat al-Islam Saleh referred to the possibility of the influence of the support for Ayatollah Qasim from Ayatollah al-Ghurayfi on the position of the Al Khalifah regime and said, “All Bahraini religious scholars, including Ayatollah Qasim, support Ayatollah al-Ghurayfi, and the recent support for Ayatollah Qasim continues to emphasize the rightful demands of the Bahraini people, which he emphasized in a statement issued two weeks ago. Therefore, his support for Ayatollah al-Ghurayfi cannot lead to greater pressure from the regime and the comprehensive point of all this support from Ayatollah al-Ghurayfi is the realization of the demands of the Bahraini people.”
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