{"id":1021,"date":"2015-06-06T02:57:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T02:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/publishers\/1021-saudi-shia-mobilize-self-defence-groups-as-is-threat-grows\/"},"modified":"2015-06-06T02:57:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T02:57:30","slug":"saudi-shia-mobilize-self-defence-groups-as-is-threat-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/publishers\/1021-saudi-shia-mobilize-self-defence-groups-as-is-threat-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Shia mobilize self-defence groups as IS threat grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Segoe UI Symbol', sans-serif; font-size: 18.6666660308838px;\">Members of Saudi Arabia\u2019s Shia minority are forming civil defense<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<h4 class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI Symbol','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI Symbol'; color: black;\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI Symbol','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI Symbol'; color: black;\">Members of Saudi Arabia\u2019s Shia minority are forming civil defense groups after twin suicide bombings over the past two Fridays \u2014 claimed by the so-called Islamic (IS).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI Symbol','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI Symbol'; color: black;\"><br \/> The attacks, which killed about 25 people, mark an escalation of IS activity in the oil-rich kingdom, with the group saying it wants to rid the Arabian peninsula of Shia Muslims. Last November, IS gunmen killed seven worshippers at a Shia shrine in al-Ahsa, in eastern Saudi Arabia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI Symbol','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI Symbol'; color: black;\"><br \/> The worst sectarian atrocities in the kingdom\u2019s modern history have prompted the formation of civil defense groups among the country\u2019s 10-15 per cent Shia minority, an \u201cunprecedented development\u201d, according to analysts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI Symbol','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI Symbol'; color: black;\"> Activists say the self-defense groups have detained people on suspicion of planning to carry out further attacks, handing them over to security forces.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Saudi Arabia\u2019s Shia minority are forming civil defense \u00a0 Members of Saudi Arabia\u2019s Shia minority are forming civil defense groups after twin suicide bombings over the past two Fridays \u2014 claimed by the so-called Islamic (IS). 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