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Mahmood:

We shouldn't really cry over Friday sermons delivered by a right honourable member of parliament, religious leader and imam Shaikh Jassim Al-Saidi when he ends his sermons with:
Oh Allah curse the Jews, Christians and the Shi'a and show me in them a black day.

Try to imagine the sheer scale of the

• Islamic meltdown.
• And Western condemnation.

...if an MP in the West had made such vile statements about Muslims. When it comes to the usual reaction of the vast majority of Muslims to the excerpted text, we don't need to imagine.

... the [Bahraini] government does have a responsibility in facing people like The Right Honourable Shaikh Jassim Al-Saidi who spread hate, sedition and sectarian discord. It is people like him through their spread of hate who would be the first to disassociate themselves from acts of terror that they themselves have incited and supported.

Very true.

I don't think the government is going to do anything about this matter. If they do, then they'll be tarred as un-Islamic since imams in general have way too much street-cred within the community.

Comments

[Mahmood Al-Yousif]

This guy (fortunately) has not credibility whatsoever, nor any intellect. He'll fall with a big thud, but no one will notice because he's not worth many moments thought.

We're changing. Very recently we couldn't open our mouths to criticise - even gently - these self made guardians of God's Word. No longer.

[Isaac Schrödinger]

That's good to hear.

I do hope this change spreads to the land next door, so that citizens of that country don't have to race to Bahrain for, um, questionable activities.