Ayatollah Naser Makarim Shirazi:

“Al khalifa would be hated more if they keep and continue this path"

Rasa – Ayatollah Makarim Shirazi condemned the attack to the house of Ayatollah Sheikh Issa Qasim and said: “Bahraini regime has to know that if they want to keep continue this path they would be hated more day by day; if they want to live in between their people they should accept the legitimate demands of the nation”.

News ID: 269

Date: 20 May 2013 - 19:37

Rasa News Agency Reports – Ayatollah Naser Makarim Shirazi, which is one of the Islamic jurists, today morning in the beginning of his class, which was held at Qum A’zam mosque, Condemned the attacks to the house of Sheikh Issa Qassim the leader of the Shia in Bahrain by Al khalifa forces and emphasized: “Bahraini forces want to scare the scholars and they want to cut the leadership of the scholars from the people this is why they are putting more pressure on them and they have to know ( be warned ) that the attacks made have an undesirable effect on the Shia world and the moderate Muslims”.

The Ayatollah denounced the silence of international organizations and human rights pretenders towards this kind of measures and noted: “We are so surprise, because when the Islamic Republic of Iran talks against a member of misguided denominations, all the congress of America goes against it, but when the house of such a big Islamic jurist is been attacked they are all quiet and they kept their mouth shut”.

Ayatollah Makarim Shirazi added: “Today just the false claims about the human rights and democracy  are being proposed and we cannot see anything in practice; what dose Bahraini people want; they are looking for their legitimate rights.”

Ayatollah Makarim Shirazi asserted: “After the desecration to the house of the leader of Bahraini Shias they asserted that the protests have to be peaceful.”

He said: “Why no one pays attention to the rights of the majority that they are peacefully looking for their needs and rights; Bahraini regime has to know that if they want to keep and continue this path they would be hated more day by day; If they want to live in between their people they should accept the legitimate demands of the nation”

The Ayatollah mentioned the nefarious plans for changing the demographic composition of Bahrain and asserted: “They have tried a lot to bring the other people from the other countries to change the demographic composition of Bahrain to put the Shia in a minority, but they couldn’t.”

The grand Ayatollah Makarim Shirazi advised the Bahraini government and Said: “Look what your people wants from you; do you really think attacking to the house of a great and reputed Islamic jurist like Ayatollah Sheikh Issa Qassim will solve your problems?”

The great teacher at the Islamic seminary of Qum mentioned: “We strongly condemned this adversarial act and we are sure that the end of those who are using this methods against the right demands of Bahraini people is defeat.”

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