{"id":4821,"date":"2017-09-28T08:19:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T08:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/4821-saudi-authorities-allow-clerics-to-preach-hatred-against-minorities-hrw\/"},"modified":"2017-09-28T08:19:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T08:19:30","slug":"saudi-authorities-allow-clerics-to-preach-hatred-against-minorities-hrw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/4821-saudi-authorities-allow-clerics-to-preach-hatred-against-minorities-hrw\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi authorities allow clerics to preach hatred against minorities: HRW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Saudi Arabia has permitted government-appointed scholars and clerics to incite hatred and discrimination against the country\u2019s religious minorities, including Shia Muslims.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Saudi Arabia has permitted government-appointed scholars and clerics to incite hatred and discrimination against the country\u2019s religious minorities, including Shia Muslims.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>In a 62-page report, entitled \u201c\u2018They Are Not Our Brothers\u2019: Hate Speech by Saudi Officials\u201d and released on Tuesday, the HRW said Saudi clerics often refer to Shias as rafidha or rawafidh, which mean rejectionists, and stigmatize their beliefs with impunity.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>It cited a member of Saudi Arabia\u2019s Council of Senior Scholars, the kingdom\u2019s highest religious body, as saying that Shia Muslims \u201care not our brothers &#8230; rather they are brothers of Satan.\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cSaudi Arabia has relentlessly promoted a reform narrative in recent years, yet it allows government-affiliated clerics and textbooks to openly demonize religious minorities such as Shia,\u201d said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at HRW.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cThis hate speech prolongs the systematic discrimination against the Shia minority and \u2013 at its worst \u2013 is employed by violent groups who attack them,\u201d she added.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Saudi Arabia has permitted government-appointed scholars and clerics to incite hatred and discrimination against the country\u2019s religious minorities, including Shia Muslims.\u00a0 \u00a0 Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Saudi Arabia has permitted government-appointed scholars and clerics to incite hatred and discrimination against the country\u2019s religious minorities, including Shia Muslims.\u00a0 In a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[664,531,38,79],"class_list":["post-4821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-country","tag-muslims","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-shia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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