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Bahrain Hosts Salafist Cleric Renowned for Declaring Shiites as Apostates

2018-11-09 - 10:38 p

Bahrain Mirror: Sunni Endowments in Bahrain announced hosting an extremist Salafist cleric Othman Al-Khamis to deliver a lecture in Al-Adliya Mosque on Saturday (November 10, 2018).

Khamis, a Kuwaiti national, is renowned for declaring Shiites, who constitute the majority of indigenous people in Bahrain, as apostates.

Bahrain bans Shiite preachers from entering the country under the pretext of maintaining national unity. Bahrain has also arrested number of clerics and issued charges against them related to infringing beliefs of others.

There are many footages for Khamis on the Internet in which he is describing Shiite as polytheists and saying that they have to be killed according to Salafist beliefs.

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