{"id":8711,"date":"2014-04-26T08:04:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T08:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=8711"},"modified":"2014-04-26T10:58:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T10:58:58","slug":"shaikh-issa-qassim-bahraini-regime-declares-war-on-shia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/shaikh-issa-qassim-bahraini-regime-declares-war-on-shia\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaikh Issa Qassim: Bahraini regime declares war on Shia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divLead2\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<p><strong>A Bahraini Shia leader says the ruling Al Khalifa regime has officially declared a war on the Shia faith by expelling the representative of Iraq-based Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">In a Friday speech, Ayatollah Sheikh Issa Qassem condemned the Al Khalifa regime over expulsion of Sheikh Hussein al-Najati, the representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: #5b5b5b;\"><p>\u201cOut of all states in the world, Bahrain declared a blatant, defying and open war on the Shia faith,\u201d Sheikh Qassim stated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">He also called on the international community and the United Nations to follow up the case of Najati.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Najati was responsible for collecting and redistributing religious donations on behalf of Ayatollah Sistani.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Bahraini authorities expelled Najati on April 23, accusing him of not being transparent and not having the official approval of the regime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Najati had been among the 31 opposition figures deprived of their Bahraini nationality by the regime in 2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Amnesty International also called on the Bahraini regime to stop the \u201cintimidation\u201d of Najati, saying Manama must \u201crescind\u201d the decision.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThis campaign of threats, harassment and intimidation against Sheikh Hussain al-Najati is unacceptable and must stop immediately,\u201d said Said Boumedouha, Amnesty International\u2019s deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The United Nations also has censured the Bahraini regime for discriminating against the Shia majority of the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Manama has launched a heavy-handed crackdown on anti-regime protesters since the uprising against the ruling Al Khalifa family began in February 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Scores of Bahrainis have so far been killed and hundreds of others injured and arrested in the regime crackdown on peaceful demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>Source &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2014\/04\/26\/360119\/bahraini-regime-declares-was-on-shias\/\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bahraini Shia leader says the ruling Al Khalifa regime has officially declared a war on the Shia faith by expelling the representative of Iraq-based Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. In a Friday speech, Ayatollah Sheikh Issa Qassem condemned the Al Khalifa regime over expulsion of Sheikh Hussein al-Najati, the representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[54,162,589,590,163],"class_list":["post-8711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-world-news","tag-bahrain-2","tag-headline","tag-shaikh-issa-qasim","tag-shia-oppression","tag-ticker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8713,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711\/revisions\/8713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}