Al Wefaq National Islamic Society issued on Wednesday a statement to denounce the regime’s insane moves against a religious group in Bahrain represented by throwing ridiculous accusations at the Shia sect in the country.
What follows is the text of the statement:
In a suspicious, alarming move that violates the law and the constitution and contradicts all norms and values, the regime in Bahrain announced accusations against the Shia denomination with ridiculous charges and arrested all its leaders and scholars without any discrimination or controls. It targeted the core clerical elite engaged in study, teaching, leading Friday and congregational prayers, and responsible for religious and social guidance, direction, and outreach, and who are not involved in politics.
The regime arrested the community’s elders, people of clean and honorable reputations, and the elite of society from among the scholars who preserved this country and civil peace through their piety, knowledge, and high religious and national sense. These are the people in whom the public places trust and find refuge amid the state’s absence and its rampant corruption, looting, theft of public funds, throwing itself into the arms of the Zionists, and its alienation from the people.
Through these lies and this provocative behavior, the regime sought to provoke Shia in Bahrain and around the world. It dared to announce this distasteful charade by including the name of His Eminence Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, the senior leader and Bahrain’s foremost figure.
The absurd arrest of dozens of scholars reflects the depth of the moral crisis within the authority, in staging failed action films of raids on scholars’ homes and publishing their photos in a humiliating manner. This expresses a psychological crisis as the regime attempts to sate its desire for revenge against the noble scholars. It is a pathological behavior that has stripped the regime of the most basic requirements for managing states and leading societies. All that has occurred in violation of the law and public decency will be held against the regime, not for it.
The regime’s behavior has proven beyond doubt that Bahrain needs a balanced and just political system in which the people and the law are sovereign, not chaos, hatred, and the abhorrent sectarian spirit that the current authority has shown it cannot escape in the details of state management and steering its course. Bahraini citizens quickly recalled the regime’s madness in demolishing mosques, burning and vandalizing Husseiniyas, arrests, identity-based killings, and inquisitorial courts. These are outdated and obsolete practices. A state cannot be built on such grudges, hatreds, sectarian madness, violence, insults, and slander, along with the accumulation of failure in politics, services, livelihood, coexistence, diplomacy, and more.
🔻The just and legitimate popular demands have become urgent and necessary to return this country to the path of stability and to restore the absent role of the people. This is to be achieved through an elected government with popular will that forms a real guarantee for stability; a parliament with full legislative and oversight powers; and a just, impartial, and independent judiciary. Also required are: halting the bleeding of corruption, looting, and theft of public funds; stopping tampering and assaults on the unifying national identity; and building a state of institutions and the rule of law.
Source: Al-Manar English Website