Tehran’s Friday Prayer Leader:

Saudi Arabia, US, Zionists prevent progress of original Islam

Rasa – Ayatollah Emami-Kashani called on Islamabad to reverse the policy of inaction on the frequent killings of Shi’a Muslims in terrorist attacks in that country.

News ID: 422466

Date: 18 June 2016 - 16:53

RNA – Tehran’s Interim Friday Prayers Leader, Ayatollah Mohammad Emami-Kashani, harshly decried the loss of Shi’a lives in Pakistan, saying a number of Pakistani Shi’a clerics have staged sit-ins in reaction to the killings.

His Eminence said ominous triangle of Saudi money, Zionist’s policy and US power prevents the progress of original Islam.

He noted the Islam that Takfiris and ISIL preach is not the noble and original one.

Praising the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution’s comments on Islam, he noted that the only person who well describes the Revolution at home and abroad is the Iranian Leader Ayatollah Khamenei; “He stands at the peak, where he sees the entire world and then makes remarks.”

Stating that the global arrogance seeks to wipe out Islam, Ayatollah Emami-Kashani stressed the need for unity, saying the Muslim nation should stick into the Prophet teachings and never let enemies of Islam to tarnish the Quran and Islam, for which the Islamic world is truly responsible.

Tehran’s Friday prayer leader pointing to the Bahraini government’s crackdown on Shi’a clerics, said the government has closed and ruined the Bahrain Shi’a mosques torturing clerics. “The Muslim world must sympathize with the oppressed Muslims of Bahrain,” he underlined.

Pointing to the oppressed Shi’as in Pakistan, Ayatollah Emami-Kashani said “they beat and kill Shi’as in Pakistan, some Shi’a clerics has protested the violence along with some Sunni scholars; even Christian scholars support them, but the government is silent.”

He urged the Pakistani government to protect the rights of Shi’as in the country and to “review its policy” of muted response to the Shi’a killings.

Targeted killings against Shi’a Muslims in Pakistan have drawn international outrage, with rights groups and regional countries expressing concern over the growing deadly violence.

Shi’as are seen as a minority group in Pakistan. They make up about a fifth of the country’s population of over 180 million.

In another part of his sermon in Friday Prayers this week, Ayatollah Emami-Kashani said the spread of drugs is the US policy, saying “they (the US policy makers) import terrorism on the one hand and drug on the other hand.”

He pointed to the enlightening task and role of teachers and educators regarding drugs and expressed gratitude to the security forces who fight against drugs and sacrifice in the way.

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