So Muslims CAN make their feelings shown!
I’ve written before about a mosque care-taker using a mosque in Tubli as his personal brothel where he lures children into his room within the mosque, molests and rapes them about a year ago. He was prosecuted, had a sentence of 10 years in jail thrown on him and then deported to his native Pakistan once the sentence completes. We later heard that some judge found that the sentence “too harsh” and reduced it to 3 years.
What about the so called Imam who was responsible for that mosque? Some said that he knew of the happenings in the mosque and the “deviations” of the care-taker, but it was left at that as the mosque was closed for a year until the trial went through.
The mosque was re-opened last Thursday and the same Imam walked up to lead prayers, only to get the people of the village refuse to accept him as Imam and gave him his walking papers. His relatives and friends of course felt incensed by this and got into a fist fight with the opponents!
The dickhead Imam (Mousa Al-Uraibi) didn’t get the message and had the temerity to try to lead Friday prayers and of course by Friday the number of protesters increased several fold which prompted the police to take Mousa Al-Uraibi into protective custody as the gathering was felt to go even more violent than Thursday night.
The official body over-seeing the mosques (the Shi’a Endowment Board) “advised” the so called Shaikh not to lead any prayers, while the “Hawza” which is the supreme Shi’a authority in Bahrain said that it “doesn’t want to meddle” in the case. Both of these bodies are cowards in this situation. They should both fire his ass and get it over with, or is it that if you wear that turban then you are inviolate?
My advise to this dickhead is the following: unwind that turban a bit so your blood starts circulating and hopefully makes the connections between your neurons, maybe then you will understand that YOUR people don’t want you. I would rather see a pipe shoved up your ass, but then I’m not of that village and would tend to leave that pleasure to your own flock.
This is people power in action. If we as Muslims can stand up to injustice, and recognise that some of our religious leaders are corrupt and are not above questioning, why shouldn’t we take this a step further and condemn the violence, injustice and barbaric acts of other so called Muslims? Maybe this is the first step that we see here and it is significant as we have not heard of outright refusal of a turbaned one before. There is hope in that people are thinking properly and are demanding that their religious leaders are accountable.
update: The caption on this picture says “We appeal to His Majesty the King to immediately interfere to solve the problem of our mosque to save our village” Why the King? Do they think that he’s got nothing better to do than micro-manage every single situation? What about the legal process, the parliament, etc? Obviously they don’t give these bodies any weight whatsoever, or that if their problem is not solved, then the world will collapse? Or is it that the general population believe that only the King has the power to solve every issue be that a minor or major thing? He does, but they’ve demonstrated that they can solve their own problem, but have also shown that they’re being very naive or at least that guy who put that banner up there is.
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Worshippers to Imam: Get the hell OUT of our mosque!
Good for the people to stand against this jerk. Same thing as the priest abuse in the Catholic church, and the church covering it up for years and just transferring the priest to another church where they could go on to a new set of victims. Like they didn’t know. They were more concerned about their power and image than doing what was right.
Can’t imagine the anger these families must have thinking they have to listen to someone tell them how to behave or what to believe when he can’t live up to the same standards. Hope they keep the pressure on and realize they have the power to make a difference.
M
Worshippers to Imam: Get the hell OUT of our mosque!
I am delighted that the people felt free enough to voice such an outrage!!!!! Mayhaps they just want the King to do the right thing for his citizens. Anyone that molests children should be jailed and anyone who condones it should share the sentence. I believe the term is Accesory to a Criminal Offense.
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I got the first picture from Akhbar Al-Khaleej (yesterday) and the second was from Al-Wasat of this morning.
I know people who are close to the situation and they told me that this particular care-taker has been cought “at it” a couple of times before and warned, he cried and promised to repent, only to repeat the offence a few months later, this time he was confronted (with fists) by one of the fathers and that’s why he was originally taken into “protective” custody (if he hadn’t he would have been castrated) and faced trial in which he was jailed for 10 years. When his case was reviewed a few months later (don’t know the circumstances on why it was reviewed) the judge reduced the sentence to 3 years.
The street knew that this particular “imam” knew about wrongs being done and didn’t do anything about it. That’s why he was forced to leave the mosque on Thursday night. He was injured in the scuffles, but the guy is stupid, he didn’t get the message and insisted on leading the Friday prayers. Not in this lifetime was the overwhelming majority’s decision and we await more news from the press tomorrow…
Worshippers to Imam: Get the hell OUT of our mosque!
How are Imams appointed? Is there a supreme religious body which allocates each one to a particular mosque, as in the Catholic church? Do the worshippers have no say, normally?
Worshippers to Imam: Get the hell OUT of our mosque!
Doesnt the buck stop with the king? Is there any use in protesting to anyone else? It is well known that nobody will take a decision because they have to answer to someone above, who in turn answers to someone else above, all the way up to the king Mahmood, this is a small country with everyone answerable to the king, so what to do, waste your time getting nowhere at the bottom or protest to the king in the first place. A sad situation but there you go, this is Bahrain!
Worshippers to Imam: Get the hell OUT of our mosque!
Mahmood, were you at the protest also, or did you get the pictures from somewhere else? The reason I ask is because in the GDN article they make it sound as though there was going to be a riot or something. It says:
They didn’t bother to mention the peaceful protesters that you have shown in your photos. As usual, we have to do our own investigation whenever we read something in the GDN. Do you know what really happened?
Worshippers to Imam: Get the hell OUT of our mosque!
Oh! And plus …really, what exactly does the king do when he is not either praising neighbouring countries ‘friendly relations with Bahrain’ OR sending telegrams to world leaders or even having meetings about having meetings with members of his family, woops sorry, i mean government!
Really what does he do? I know on Fridays it’s the great family horse racing trophy swapping but thats about it!
Worshippers to Imam: Get the hell OUT of our mosque!
I smell a TWITBTHIFD Society nomination for somebody. Maybe more than one. Anybody second the idea?