Bahraini journalist:

Ayatollah Isa Qasim walks on the path of Imam Khomeini

Rasa – Ibrahim al-Madhoun said the Bahraini Shi’a leader walks on the same path as Martyr Muhammad-Baqir al-Sadr in Iraq, Imam Musa al-Sadr in Lebanon and Imam Khomeini in Iran.

News ID: 422507

Date: 27 June 2016 - 19:40

RNA – Speaking to the media, Ibrahim al-Madhoun, a Bahraini journalist and political activist living in Lebanon, stated that Saudi Arabia is the sponsor and the main cause of the current crisis in Bahrain, saying: “By examining the status of Arab and Islamic countries we can clearly see that many regional politicians support terrorist groups like ISIL and the al-Nusrah Front.”

He described the Al Khalifah regime’s revocation of the citizenship of opposition leader, Ayatollah Shaykh Isa Qasim, as “insanity” and said that the attack on Ayatollah Qasim, the increase of Shaykh Ali Salman’s prison sentence from 4 to 9 years, the arbitrary detention of Nabeel Rajab, the president of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, the dissolution of the religious and political institutions such as al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, al-Ta’wiyah (Islamic Enlightenment Institution) and al-Risalah Islamic Associations, paper and other such measures that the Al Khalifah regime has perpetrated recently are illogical and totally inconsiderate.

Al-Madhoun added that the revocation of the citizenship of Ayatollah Isa Qasim is the result of Saudi Arabia’s failures in Fallujah, Yemen and Syria. On these grounds, Al Saud has conveyed its demands to the heads of government of Bahrain in order to increase pressure on the country’s Shi’as.

The Bahraini journalist pointed out that the character, the direction and goals of Shaykh Isa Qasim as a Bahraini religious and political leader is such a way that they could be compared to Martyr Muhammad-Baqir al-Sadr in Iraq, Imam Musa al-Sadr in Lebanon and Imam Khomeini in Iran.

The Al Khalifah regime’s June 20 revocation of the citizenship of Ayatollah Qasim came less than a week after Bahrain’s Justice Ministry suspended al-Wefaq and dissolved the opposition Islamic Enlightenment Institution and al-Risalah Islamic Association.

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