Ayatollah Isa Qasim:

The Bahraini Nation is at the highest level of intellectual and political maturity

Rasa – The Shiite leadership of Bahrain harshly criticizes the Al-Khalifa regime claiming the Bahraini people’s non-maturity and insisted that the Bahraini nation is at the highest level of intellectual and political maturity.

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Date: 30 April 2013 - 13:17

Rasa News Agency Reports –“The Bahraini nation is at the highest level of intellectual and political maturity; they won’t neglect Islam and are wise in dealing with the political issues. They continue to sacrifice themselves and they won’t get afraid of the policy of fear and deceive” Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qasim said on this week’s Friday prayers.

“But unfortunately, those who consider themselves as the representative of the nation claim that the nation has not reached the intellectual and political maturity and they cannot vote or have an opinion. This is what the representatives of this nation said on the negotiating table” he added.

Mentioning the continuation of the bloodshed against the Bahraini regime, he stated: “Murder, imprisonment, torture, raiding houses, deprivation, hunger, layoff, displacement, deprivation of citizenship and a long list of [the Bahraini regime] crimes against the people have happened and the officials are talking about lack of [political] maturity!”.

“Can a nation reach its intellectual and political maturity and announce its opinion by these actions?” he wondered.

He considered the negotiations as the political maneuver of the Al-Khalifa Regime and said: “If the regime was truly after ending the political crisis by negotiations, he would have end its crimes. The regime was actually after restoration of a part of its lost reputation in the world”.

“The regime claims, that he wants to negotiate with the protesters to end the crisis, on the other hand, however, he believes that the people are stupid. The interesting thing is that the regime doesn’t have commitment to the result of the negotiations either” The Friday Preacher insisted.

Ayatollah Isa Qasim stated: “From the very beginning, it was quite obvious that the regime is not serious about the negotiations and that’s why one third of the participators in these negotiations were the protesters themselves”.

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