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Ansarullah

Ansarullah

A Zaidi Shiite movement operating in Yemen. It seeks to establish a democratic government in Yemen.
Shiite

Shiite

represents the second largest denomination of Islam. Shiites believe Ali (peace be upon him) to be prophet"s successor in the Caliphate.
Resistance

Resistance

Axis of Resistances refers to countries and movements with common political goal, i.e., resisting against Zionist regime, America and other western powers. Iran, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Palestine are considered as the Axis of Resistance.
Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

A regional political u n i o n consisting of Arab states of the Persian Gulf, except for Iraq.
Taliban

Taliban

Taliban is a Sunni fundamentalist movement in Afghanistan. It was founded by Mohammed Omar in 1994.
  Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism is an extremist pseudo-Sunni movement, which labels non-Wahhabi Muslims as apostates thus paving the way for their bloodshed.
Kurds

Kurds

Kurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region, which spans adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They are an Iranian people and speak the Kurdish languages, which form a subgroup of the Northwestern Iranian branch of Iranian languages.
NATO

NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
Islamic Awakening

Islamic Awakening

Refers to a revival of the Islam throughout the world, that began in 1979 by Iranian Revolution that established an Islamic republic.
Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda

A militant Sunni organization founded by Osama bin Laden at some point between 1988 and 1989
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Scared Bahraini Regime Postpones Ayatollah Sheikh Qassim’s Trial
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Scared Bahraini Regime Postpones Ayatollah Sheikh Qassim’s Trial

Sunday 7 May 2017
Council member-states to intervene in the trial of Ayatollah Qassim, the most prominent Islamic leader in Bahrain. Salam for Democracy and Human Rights, Bahrain Forum for Human Rights, and the Persian Gulf Institute for Democracy and Human Rights, addressed the diplomatic missions and demanded them ...
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Bin Salman’s Difficult Journey to Saudi Throne
Analysis

Bin Salman’s Difficult Journey to Saudi Throne

Wednesday 12 July 2017 ،
Council of Senior Scholars (CSS) with its 21 members, all picked by the king for certain time, is a top body. Following the Hanbali school, one of the four Sunni Islam schools, the Council adopts ideology of Ibn Taymiyyah and Muhammad bin Abd al-Wahhab, extremist Sunni scholars who respectively live ...
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US Secret Role in Rwandan Genocide
Report

US Secret Role in Rwandan Genocide

Tuesday 12 September 2017 ،
of thousands of Rwandans were murdered in the most rapid genocide ever recorded. The killers used simple tools – machetes, clubs and other blunt objects, or herded people into buildings and set them aflame with kerosene. Most of the victims were of minority Tutsi ethnicity; most of the killers ...
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Saudi Regime Spreading Hatred Against Shiite Muslims: Report
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Saudi Regime Spreading Hatred Against Shiite Muslims: Report

Tuesday 26 September 2017 ،
Council of Senior Religious Scholars, the country's highest religious body, replied in a public meeting to a question about Shiite Muslims by saying that they are not our brothers ... rather they are brothers of Satan .... Some religious scholars use language that suggests Shiite Muslims are pa ...
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Pakistani Scholars’ Fatwa Not to Curb Terror, Extremism: Analyst
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Pakistani Scholars’ Fatwa Not to Curb Terror, Extremism: Analyst

Monday 22 January 2018 ،
Council, following the meeting in a press interview claimed that ISIS and Lebanon’s Hezbollah both use the suicide attacks and the fatwa majorly is aimed against their actions. According to the expert, hardline groups such as Afghanistan and Pakistan’s Taliban, as well as the Haqqani Ne ...
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How Is Relationship Between Saudi Government, Religious Apparatus?
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How Is Relationship Between Saudi Government, Religious Apparatus?

Friday 28 February 2020 ،
Council of Senior Scholars. The document appears to show that the council has been used instrumentally as it issued a fatwa in support of the Libyan National Army, a militia led by Saudi-backed General Khalifa Haftar who is leading an assault against internationally-recognized Government of National ...
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How Is Riyadh Instrumentalizing Hajj for Normalization with Tel Aviv?
Analysis

How Is Riyadh Instrumentalizing Hajj for Normalization with Tel Aviv?

Sunday 10 July 2022 ،
Council of Senior Scholars, for the Day of Arafat sermon which marks the culmination of the Hajj ceremony. The Israelis were happy to hear the news as Al-Issa is a stooge for the Saudi ruling family and acts in line with normalization and Israeli interests in religious and propagandistic terms. Acco ...
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Regional Commemorations Renew Popular Faith to Gen. Soleimani’s Path
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Regional Commemorations Renew Popular Faith to Gen. Soleimani’s Path

Thursday 4 January 2024 ،
Council to a puppet.  “A nation without martyrs is an empty and weak nation, and the [life of] great men should end in martyrdom, because they provide a strong motivation for the nations to remain on the path of principles and values. Martyr Soleimani and his comrade Martyr al-Muhandis w ...
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Ismail Haniyeh: From Al-Shati Camp to Martyrdom in Tehran
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Ismail Haniyeh: From Al-Shati Camp to Martyrdom in Tehran

Wednesday 31 July 2024 ،
Council, commented Beirut and Tehran attacks, adding: Mutual hatred is expected to intensify in the Middle East. He added in a Telegram post that Israel's attacks on the positions of Hezbollah and Hamas in Beirut and Tehran will inevitably strengthen the ranks of the anti-Israeli resistance in t ...
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Dark Horizon of Transition Period in Post-Assad Syria
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Dark Horizon of Transition Period in Post-Assad Syria

Saturday 14 December 2024 ،
Council, run by its leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani’s advisors, to monopolize the fatwa-issuing process and, by limiting the role of salafi scholars in the process, it wanted to prevent the possibility of informal and extremist interpretations of Islamic law. Also, there are reports that the HT ...

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Commemorating the 36th anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini (RA), the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Commemorating the 36th anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini (RA), the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.