The political part of Friday sermon of Ayatollah Shaikh Isa Ahmed Qassim

“Two Logics”

The unilateral authorities, which base on neglecting their people, have a logic that considers politics as a tool to enslave the people and to incite hatred among the community components, making them ignorant and then engage them into chaos and bloody fights

 
according to its need.

The logic that the authorities rely on to face the popular freedom aspiration of the people is :

• Firing lethal toxic tear gasses
• Firing rubber bullets
• Firing birdshots
• Torture
• Imprisonment
• Killing
• Bribing
• Being crazily generous to the pro-government agents
• All kinds of exclusion, suppression, repression, terror and threats.

This is the logic of the unilateral authority .

On the contrary, the logic of the peoples who are longing for freedom, and longing to get their right to self-determination. That is the logic of reason , conscience and religion and the logic of all international covenants, it’s the kind of logic that is only rejected by an oppressive ideology.

The peoples are neither violent nor vindictive, and it has been so clear that all Arab-Spring revolutions started as peaceful movements. The authorities’ violence and over-killing pulled some revolutions into violence to face their authority’s abortion of freedom through the people’s bloodshed.

The peaceful popular movement of the people of Bahrain presented a good example of adhering to the peaceful approach, this embarrassed the authorities that are trying recklessly to drag the people into violence in order to escape entitlements of the people’s rights.

In Bahrain, there is a peaceful movement for reform.. the people of Bahrain demand a

• constitution that guarantees the will of the people , and
• fair distribution of electoral constituencies,
• a fairly elected house of representative (parliament)
• elected government
• a non-politicized independent judiciary
• Equality without any kind of discrimination in all state departments

Is there a nation that in this region or the whole world that denies such legitimate demands? Or are the Bahraini people excluded from this world and should not have the right to demand their rights? Don’t they have right to democracy.

The people of Bahrain is one of the peoples that have the same rights of other peoples in the world, the authority is practicing unjustifiable violence against the people of Bahrain, and this has embarrassed it in front of the world.

The authority in Bahrain is practicing unjustifiable violence and terror against peaceful people calling for legitimate demands which cannot be denied by anyone. This oppressive situations is embarrassing the regime in front of the international community and human rights organizations, when the issue of Bahrain is internationally discussed, however the authority is in desperate need of justifications for its violence against the legitimate popular demands.

The regime is trying relentlessly to find an excuse for its violence, that is why we find it

• lying publically in the media
• always trying to link the popular movement to a foreign plot
• creating fake speeches and relating them to religious and political figures, claiming that they call for violence despite their repeated pronounce calls for peaceful movement

However, they make fake sound clips by cutting out a part of a footage and using the sentences or words according to their plot that aims to damage the image of the peaceful movement, and any figure or party that stands by it. This mission aims mainly to falsely relate calls for violence a particular person or party, with no shame or conscience.

The state media has cut out “Crush him” from its context which called for legitimate defense (for women), it has been repeatedly said by state officials and deliberately focused on (alone) to mislead the public inside and outside Bahrain, without shame in such a scandalous obvious lie.

This goes on as the a large number of are victimized and killed by the security forces, yet, the authority approves such behavior justifying it as self-defense! So there is an obliged and permissible self-defense which is initial-killing, while a call to defend women is terror? Here, I am asking any minister, official, cleric, journalist.. what will he do if his family was attacked? Will the minister let anyone come close to attacking females of his family?

The authority escalated its violence level, from time to time, to deal with the popular movement in a way may bring violence on streets so as to serve as pretext in order to smash the movement in one strike.

The authority is longing for a call for violence from a political association or a cleric that stand by the people in their demands, in order to meet its desired purpose to strike a justifiable crushing blow against the opposition. These kind of calls won’t be adopted by an association, a cleric nor any pro-justice and pro-reform Friday sermon.

Personally, it is impossible for me to call for violence neither directly nor indirectly. My religion is my deterrent, I cannot accept violence against Muslims and all humanity. Also, my love for this valuable homeland, and my interest of its safety and its citizens’ security keep me far from adopting such irrational speech. Slandering, defamation, abuse, threats and menaces aiming to stop the Friday prayers; or even what is recently understood as death threats from one of the journalist when he included such threats in his article, recently, stating that “If the State will not take its right from (Issa), the people are capable to do so”.

The authority’s message has been received. But, defending rights of people is a humanitarian responsibility that a religious person will not turn his back on. All offenses and threats will not make me disvalue the blood of the people, and I will not call for violence.

The authority is also longing for this tribune and others to become a source of sectarian calls that spark war fire between brothers who share religion, homeland and destiny. This war may burn anyone, and therefore the people are requested then to give in to the unjust authority which will enjoy full and complete power. It is impossible for this tribune to serve for such desires of the authority. We will fight such sectarian ideologies and will work to abort any attempt to play with fire.

There is no doubt that the authority has the required power and ability to stop the Friday sermons, and all other sermons, as it had threatened. However, it will be impossible for that to go on. The people will not be silenced, and will continue to demand for their right to real reform. Such tyrannical acts will only bring more people to believe that this authority is an oppressive one.

The people’s political awareness, their will and determination to peacefully get their rights, will not be affected by denying a cleric freedom of opinion, or closing a mosque here or there. Are the people going to back-down if a particular cleric kept silent? This is complete illusion.

This tribune had always had a fixed stance regarding the political issue and popular movement in Bahrain. This tribune will always stand by the people in their legitimate demands and their right to peaceful movement until their demands are met. We will not stand by terror and will not stand by the oppressive government with all its pronounced terror. We will always call for peaceful movement and real reform.