Fatwas of Saudi Religious Establishment Charge Shi'a Muslims with Infidelity

The Committee   for  the  Defense  of  Human  Rights  in the  Arabian Peninsula

( CDHRAP )

NO  : 139/ H / 2007

DATE  : 23 / 10 / 2007  

The Saudi clerics of what is called Wahhabi religious establishment (Wahabbi extremist muftis ) which government-backed , are still issuing fatwas against Shi'ite Muslims in the Arabian Peninsula .

Not long ago, on the publication of the fatwa of Sheikh Salman al-'Awda who described Shi'ite Muslims as  infidels, apostates and hypocrites which was published on the Saudi daily al-Jazeera on 14 October 2007  which caused violent reactions by Shi'a people in the Arabian peninsula and rose sectarian tension in the region , another of the regime's symbols from the Saudi religious institution ( D. Mohammad bin Abdullah al-Qannas a professor of Al Qassim University) issued a new religious edict which was published on Barrak’s website (Islam today)  on 22 October 2007 described Shi'a as " a stray Islamic sect " in response to a follower’s question .

Saudi regime nowadays tries to grow the seeds of disunity, mischief and division among the Moslem people of Arabian Peninsula through the extremist fatwas of its religious  establishment .

The Committee for  the Defense of Human Rights in the Arabian Peninsula appeals all Islamic thinkers and intellectuals in the Islamic world and from all sects to condemn such fatwas because they do not affect a specific Muslim, but defaming Moslems all over the whole.

CDHRAP also calls the international organizations and local human rights to put pressure on the Saudi regime to cease its policy of discrimination against the followers of Shi'a minority and the rest of the other Islamic sects in the Arabian Peninsula.