Iranians Islam different from what Saudi terror masters preach: Zarif

Tue Sep 6, 2016 8:23PM

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the religion of Iran and most of the Muslim world is nothing like that of Saudi Arabian Wahhabis.

“Indeed; no resemblance between Islam of Iranians & most Muslims & bigoted extremism that Wahhabi top cleric & Saudi terror masters preach,” Zarif posted on his Twitter account on Tuesday.

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Zarif made the remark in response to a top Wahhabi cleric saying that Iranians were not Muslims.

Earlier, Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al ash-Sheikh told an Arabic language newspaper that Iranians are not Muslims and have a deep animosity towards Sunnis.

The Mofti’s remarks were made after Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei criticized those in charge of Hajj over last year’s Mina tragedy.

On September 24, 2015, a deadly crush occurred after two large masses of pilgrims converged at a crossroads in Mina during the symbolic ceremony of the stoning of Satan in Jamarat.

Saudi Arabia claims nearly 770 people were killed in the incident, but Iranian officials say about 4,700 people, including more than 460 Iranians, lost their lives in the tragedy. The crush was the deadliest incident in the history of the pilgrimage. According to an Associated Press count based on official statements from the 36 countries that lost citizens in the disaster, more than 2,400 pilgrims were killed in the incident.

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In this September 24, 2015, photo, bodies of people who died in a crush in Mina, Saudi Arabia, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage lie in a street. (AP)

Iran has, on numerous occasions, criticized Saudi’s incompetence in handling the pilgrimage for the tragic incidents.

As Saudi Arabia fell short of ensuring guarantees for the safety of pilgrims, Iran announced recently that it will not send pilgrims to this year’s Hajj.

http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2016/09/06/483503/zarif-tweet-saudi-arabia-muslims

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Seun

Hajj rift: Top Saudi cleric says Iranians ‘aren’t Muslims’ after Iran calls Saudis ‘murderers’

Published time: 6 Sep, 2016 09:27
Edited time: 6 Sep, 2016 15:2

RT

A top Saudi cleric declared that Iranians are “not Muslims” after Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei slammed Saudi Arabia for poorly managing the hajj pilgrimage, saying the country had virtually “murdered” the Muslims who perished in last year’s stampede.
“We must understand these are not Muslims, they are children of Magi and their hostility towards Muslims is an old one. Especially with the people of Sunna,” Grand Mufti Abdulaziz al-Sheikh said in comments to the Makkah newspaper, adding that Khamenei’s remarks did not surprise him. The term “Magi” refers to Zoroastrianism – a monotheistic religion older than Islam that was once dominant in Persian lands before the Arab conquest.

The hajj is a religious pilgrimage to Islam’s most holy sites that every Muslim is obligated to undertake at least once in their lives. In the deadliest incident of its kind on record, some 2,426 people were killed in a stampede Mecca’s Mina neighborhood as they were making their hajj in September of last year. While the cause still remains unclear, the tragedy has further exacerbated long-standing animosities between regional archrivals Saudi Arabia and Iran. Tehran claimed that 464 of those killed were Iranian, while blaming the calamaity on Saudi mismanagement. Iran has repeatedly demanded that an independent body take over management of the five-day event, but the Saudi authorities have refused to consider the proposal.

On Monday, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused Saudi authorities of “murdering” Iranian pilgrims.

“They murdered them,” Khamenei wrote in an emotionally charged statement on his official website.

“The heartless and murderous Saudis locked up the injured with the dead in containers – instead of providing medical treatment and helping them or at least quenching their thirst,” the leader stated, though he offered no evidence to support his allegations. He also accused the Saudis, who he called “small and puny satans,” of “treason” for failing to provide sufficient security for the hajj, saying they had been too busy catering to the United States to arrange it.

“Saudi rulers… are disgraced and misguided people. [They] tremble for fear of jeopardizing the interests of the Great Satan, the US,” Khamenei wrote.

“Because of Saudi rulers’ oppressive behavior towards God’s guests, the world of Islam must fundamentally reconsider the management of the two holy places and the issue of hajj,” Iran’s leader suggested.

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and interior minister, Mohammed bin Nayef, said that Iran was merely trying to “politicize” the hajj, while warning that the agitation could compromise the safety of pilgrims.

“The Iranian authorities don’t want the Iranian pilgrims to come here for reasons concerning the Iranians themselves,” Saudi state news agency SPA quoted the crown prince as saying.

“Seeking to politicize hajj and turn it into rituals against Islam’s teachings [compromises] the safety of hajj,” he stressed.

The crown prince dismissed Khamenei as lacking credibility and objectivity, stressing that the Saudis have never treated Iranian pilgrims any differently than the other pilgrims, while Iranian pilgrims do not always respect the rules of hajj.

“[They use hajj] to violate the teachings of Islam, through shouting slogans and disturbing the security of pilgrims,” he noted.

Bin Nayef stressed that the Saudis consider it their sacred duty to provide all of the pilgrims “with all safety and security.”

After two failed attempts to resolve the safety issue, Iran banned its pilgrims from attending this year’s hajj for the first time in almost 30 years. Nonetheless, there are many Iranians among the over one million pilgrims that have already arrived in the Gulf state for the hajj starting Friday, the Saudi Minister of Hajj and Umrah said, according to Aawsat newspaper.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia has been gearing up for the event, fearing a repeat of last year’s tragedy. This year, Muslim pilgrims will all have to wear electronic bracelets containing personal and medical information, while additional security cameras have been installed along the hajj route. In addition, Crown Prince bin Nayef has warned that more severe punishments await those who disturb the proceedings.

https://www.rt.com/news/358378-iran-saudi-rift-hajj/

Hajj stampede: Iran leader says Saudis 'murdered' pilgrims

5 September 2016

BBC

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From the section Middle East

Iran's supreme leader has launched a blistering attack on Saudi Arabia, urging Muslims to "reconsider" its custodianship of Islam's holiest sites.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused the Saudi authorities of "murdering" pilgrims who were caught up in a deadly stampede during last year's Hajj.

The injured were locked in containers and not provided medical treatment, he alleged, without providing evidence.

The stampede killed 2,426 people, according to an unofficial tally.

The Saudi authorities, who say only 769 died, have made few details of the official investigation into the incident public but have previously rejected criticism of their management of the Hajj.


Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali KhameneiImage copyrightEPA

Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called Saudi leaders "blasphemous" and "faithless".

The stampede killed 2,426 people, according to an unofficial tally.

The Saudi authorities, who say only 769 died, have made few details of the official investigation into the incident public but have previously rejected criticism of their management of the Hajj.

'Puny satans'
In a statement published on his website marking the anniversary of the stampede, Ayatollah Khamenei accused the Saudis of being "at fault".

"The heartless and murderous Saudis locked up the injured with the dead in containers - instead of providing medical treatment and helping them or at least quenching their thirst. They murdered them," he said.

"Instead of apology and remorse and judicial prosecution of those who were directly at fault in that horrifying event, Saudi rulers- with utmost shamelessness and insolence - refused to allow the formation of an international Islamic fact-finding committee."

The ayatollah called on the Islamic world to "fundamentally reconsider the management of the Two Holy Places" - Mecca's Great Mosque and the Prophet's Mosque in Medina - and "the issue of Hajj".

"Those who have reduced Hajj to a religious-tourist trip and have hidden their enmity and malevolence towards the faithful and revolutionary people of Iran under the name of 'politicising hajj', are themselves small and puny satans who tremble for fear of jeopardising the interests of the Great Satan, the US," he added.

In May, Iran's Hajj organisation declared that pilgrims from the country would not be able to attend this year's Hajj, blaming "ongoing sabotage by the Saudi government".

The Saudi foreign minister responded by accusing Iran of asking for special treatment for its citizens and of finding excuses for denying them the chance to fulfil a religious duty.

The decision came four months after Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic ties with Iran in response to attacks on Saudi diplomatic compounds in Iran by people angered by the kingdom's execution of a prominent Shia cleric convicted of terrorism offences.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37274243?SThisFB

Hmm, the bigot is at it again.

Demmzy15:
Why call se'un? Do you expect him to become a Shia with this blabble or you're trying make Frontpage? I'm at times amazed at how you think people are dumb to read your gibberish, the world is wiser now and everyone knows who in fact divides the Muslims.

Was it not this guy saudi's FM Adel Al-jubeur ripped apart when he wanted to use taquiyya?

Demmzy15:
Why call se'un? Do you expect him to become a Shia with this blabble or you're trying make Frontpage? I'm at times amazed at how you think people are dumb to read your gibberish, the world is wiser now and everyone knows who in fact divides the Muslims.

U dey mind am?! I don't even bother reading their trash. Always wanting to be apologetic towards the West..kiss asses kawai!!! Alhamdulilah ppl don't even read him trash sef!!!!

Demmzy15:
Why call se'un? Do you expect him to become a Shia with this blabble or you're trying make Frontpage? I'm at times amazed at how you think people are dumb to read your gibberish, the world is wiser now and everyone knows who in fact divides the Muslims.

Make up your mind. Are Shia, Muslims or not Muslims?

Those who pass takfir and carry out takfiri killings against Shia Muslims are the ones dividing Muslims, if you recognize Shia to be Muslims. And whether you recognize or not, alongside your extremist clerics, it makes no difference because we believe in Allah as the Creator of all and everything and only Allah, and we believe Muhammad (s) is His final prophet and messenger.

Are the victims complaining of oppression or the extremists who oppress the victims to blame for division? Has Iran ever sponsored or promote or condone anyone who has made it their mission to kill Sunnis? The answer is capital NO! Has any Shia done that? No! Has Saudi sponsored, promoted, or condone those who murder Shia? Yes. Thousands of attacks on Shia civilians by takfiri suicide bomber following Wahhabi extremist ideology and not once is there condemnation by Saudi govt or its clerics. Rather they condemn the killings in France and America done by terrorists who share their ideology.

lexiconkabir:


Was it not this guy saudi's FM Adel Al-jubeur ripped apart when he wanted to use taquiyya?

Zarif and Jubeir are not on the same level in every sense of diplomacy and education and experience. Otherwise share with us your claim and see who ripped whom apart.

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But you didn't have to call se.Un. what is he gotta do with this?