edition
Ar Es
Al Mayadeen English
  • News
    • Politics
    • Economy
    • Sports
    • Arts&Culture
    • Health
    • Miscellaneous
    • Technology
    • Environment
  • Articles
    • Opinion
    • Analysis
    • Blog
    • Feature
  • Videos
  • Infographs
  • In Pictures
  • • LIVE
News
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • Sports
  • Arts&Culture
  • Health
  • Miscellaneous
  • Technology
  • Environment
Articles
  • Opinion
  • Analysis
  • Blog
  • Feature
Videos
Infographs
In Pictures
  1. Home
  2. Sondoss Al Asaad
  3. Articles
  4. Blog
  5. Ayatollah Qassem warns the opposition: Widening schisms will only have tragic consequences!
Blog

Ayatollah Qassem warns the opposition: Widening schisms will only have tragic consequences!

  • Sondoss Al AsaadSondoss Al Asaad
  • Source: Al Mayadeen English
  • 13 Aug 2022 23:45

According to Ayatollah Qassem, the solution can never be attained in the same traditional action but rather by the formation of emergency entities.

  • Ayatollah Qassem warns the opposition: Widening schisms will only have tragic consequences!
    In Ayatollah Qassem’s statement, an experience accumulated by years of political action in Bahrain

In a statement issued last June, Ayatollah Sheikh Issa Ahmed Qassem affirmed that any opposition – polarised along sectarian, political, or regional lines- empowers the government that persecutes, marginalises, impoverishes, and humiliates them, adding that whoever contributes to the political raptures and unconstructive rivalries “commits a fatal folly that robs them from any chance to get rid of the bitter reality”. 

Ayatollah Qassem warned that with the continuation of the schisms, everyone will regret it and oppression will prevail, pointing out that the failure to deliver a unified vision will be paid dear by the people. Qassem warned of the crucial stage where persecution and marginalisation have deeply prevailed in Bahrain, and where the citizens are subjected to the Zionist enemy, calling for finding common ways for a political settlement.

Indeed, since February 2011, at the height of the peaceful sit-in at the Pearl Roundabout in Manama, a political dispute arose between the opposition factions, regarding two choices: overthrowing the current regime or establishing a constitutional monarchy. Ever since then, the citizens have seen no clear vision, and although the repression practiced by the authority, in the aftermath of these events, affected everyone, it did not unite them, a dispute that the Bahraini authority has indulged in deepening.

In Ayatollah Qassem’s statement, an experience accumulated by years of political action in Bahrain. His experience has been mobilised at this particular time as Bahrain has become more like a Zionist colony, in which hostilities are run against the peoples of the region. Emergencies and the formation of a single front, especially with the intensification of the Zionist threat, added to the other appalling human rights and livelihood challenges. It is a great challenge as observers know of the consequences that arise from previous experiences of alliance with the occupation, especially in light of the reckless normalization steps undertaken by both Bahrain and the UAE.

What is remarkable and strange is that the Bahraini opposition is mostly religious, with an Islamic vision, and has long experienced the damage left by political isolation in their homeland. As for the economic challenge, it is not surprising that, in the same context, it affects everyone without exception.

Therefore, undoubtedly, the statement is a call to form an operational joint action to confront these challenges after exhausting all methods with the government. It is a statement of liquidating who is the sincere to their country, their righteous cause, and their oppressed people. It is a statement identifying the honest sane opposition from the fanatic looking for its narrow political interests. The statement is a call to work hard and sincerely achieve the common interest in light of the critical political threats – internally and externally.

Besides, Ayatollah Qassem has criticized the failure caused by negative competition and division, and because the statement is a declaration of emergency and addresses the wise from every opposition faction, it is practically the time to restrict the opposition. According to Ayatollah Qassem, the solution can never be attained in the same traditional action but rather by the formation of emergency entities.

The opinions mentioned in this article do not necessarily reflect the opinion of Al mayadeen, but rather express the opinion of its writer exclusively.
  • Bahrain Uprising
  • Bahraini prisoners
  • Bahraini opposition
  • Ayatollah Issa Qassem
  • Bahrain
Sondoss Al Asaad

Sondoss Al Asaad

Lebanese journalist

Related Articles

All
The opposition found in the boycott a way to bring to mind the political crisis and to eliminate any pretext for providing popular legitimacy to the ruling authority.

Bahrain: Elections Without People… What's the Story?

Most Read

Is this Western war on Russia simply stupidity?

Is this Western war on Russia simply stupidity?

  • Opinion
  • 22 Jan
Nurse taking care of the 16lb baby measuring 2ft long born in Brazil. (Facebook)

16lb baby measuring 2ft long is born in Brazil

  • US & Canada
  • 21 Jan
Warsaw takes to streets to protest Poland involvement in Ukraine war

Hundreds protest Poland involvement in Ukraine war in Warsaw

  • Europe
  • 21 Jan
The Russian-manufactured Marker 2 tank-striker (Military Review)

Russia reveals Marker 2 combat robots

  • Europe
  • 26 Jan

Read this

All
Russia-Pakistan energy collaboration defeats the Western sanctions
Articles

Russia-Pakistan energy collaboration defeats the Western...

  • Today
As the geographical partitioning of West Asia is rooted in British colonialism, it is perfectly rational to delve into British and American colonial history so to map the trajectory of the perceived “tectonic” shift.
Articles

Drawing parallels between the counter-revolution of 1776 and...

  • 27 Jan
Israeli Infighting about Which Brand Of Apartheid They Prefer Can Be A Good Thing
Articles

Israeli Infighting about which Brand of Apartheid they Prefer...

  • 27 Jan
Molan was a key figure in a war of aggression, described by the Nuremberg Tribunal as the supreme international crime.
Articles

Fallujah’s nemesis: A hero for our time?

  • 26 Jan
Al Mayadeen English

Al Mayadeen is an Arab Independent Media Satellite Channel.

All Rights Reserved

  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Authors
Android
iOS