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Sep 16, 2016
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The Mufti of Mauritania Calls to Cut Ties with Iran, Warns: Shiite Ideology No Less Dangerous Than Zionism

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In a Friday sermon aired on Mauritania TV on September 16, Mufti of Mauritania Sheikh Ahmad Ould Habib Al-Rahman warned that "the penetration of this [Shiite] ideology into our society will ignite the fire of sectarianism among us" and said that "cutting ties with the Safavid Persian Iranian expansionism is a duty imposed by the shari'a, as well as a demand by the Republic." He further said: "The danger and evil posed by the [Shi'ite] ideology to any society it enters is no less than the danger and evil of Zionist ideology."


Sheikh Ahmad Ould Habib al-Rahman: "I turned to His Excellency, the President, during the 'Eid Al-Adha sermon, last Monday, and as you all heard, I complained to him. You can see the sermon. Thus, the Safavid Persian Shi'itization activities in our country were exposed, through the so-called social media - YouTube and Facebook. The propagation of this ideology in our country has been exposed, Allah be praised. As I said in the sermon, at the time I knew about this only from a few trusted people, but later, these people were exposed - both in video and audio - as they were describing Abu Bakr, Omar, and 'Aisha as 'hypocrites,' and publicly cursing them. As I told you, you can see it yourselves on YouTube and on Facebook. See it for yourselves! Maybe some of you have seen it already. I believe that His Excellency, the President of the Republic, has also seen it. I am certain that after he has seen it for himself, he knows that cursing Abu Bakr, Omar, and 'Aisha is the epitome of terrorism and extremism.


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"I am convinced that [the President] knows that the penetration of this ideology into our society will intensify the fire of sectarianism from which we are already suffering, and which we are trying to stifle. We ask Allah to help us to do that. We trust that [the President] also knows that cutting ties with the Safavid Persian Iranian expansionism is a duty imposed by the shari'a, as well as a demand by the Republic. When I say a 'demand by the Republic,' I mean that it is a demand by the Sunni Islamic Republic of Mauritania. I used the expression 'demand by the Republic,' and not 'popular demand,' because I believe that cutting ties with [Iran] is a demand by the President, a demand by our government, and a demand by the people.


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"I also know that [the President] knows that this ideology, with the sectarianism that it ignites, is no less dangerous than Zionism and what it wanted to do in our country. Indeed, [Shi'ites] are part of Islam. We do not wish to accuse them of heresy. We Sunnis accuse no one of heresy, but the danger and evil posed by the [Shi'ite] ideology to any society it enters is no less than the danger and evil of the Zionist ideology."

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