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RELIGIOUS OPPRESION TOWARDS THE SUNNIS CONTINUES IN IRAN: |
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 Now it is the turn of the Salehabad Sunnite Turkmen Mosque and Religious
School.
The Islamic Republic is trying to eradicate the Sunnites and ethnic
minorities within the geographical borders that is now called Iran. This
time, the religious school and the mosque which is located in Salehabad
town of Torbat-e Jam and belongs to the Turkmen Sunnites having 24 years
of background, is on the verge of disappearance. This school is a place
where religion, Koran and hadiths (the Prophet Muhammad's sayings) are
thought and dozens of Turkmen and Baluchi students are trained. This
religious school is the school of the Salehabad Mosque nearby and Razavi
Khorasan Sunnites together with Sarahs and Torbat-e Jam Turkmens. It was
built by the philanthropists of the region.
Dozens of Sunnite Turkmens are getting religious training in this
madrasa. Moreover, many Sunnite Turkmen sisters of ours are given
hadiths training in the female siblings department of this school.
The Salehabad Madrasa was once closed down by the security forces in
1996, during Hashemi-Rafsanjani's presidency. Its teachers were exiled
elsewhere and jailed. The school building and everything inside the
building, from the carpets to the books, was extorted by the government
of the Islamic Republic. The Turkmen Sunnite community, that does not
intend to involve in politics but merely wishes to get religious
education and hand their beliefs down to next generations, reopened this
school five years after its closure.
In this new period, when the government's Shiite statesmen are pushing
the limits of oppression and impudence towards the Sunnites, the
Cultural Revolution Higher Board also made laws in an attempt to take
the independent Sunnite religious schools under the control of the
state of Shiite Islamic Republic and make the Sunnites get Shi'ism
training in the religious schools.
Now, the authorities of the Islamic Republic adjudged the evacuation of
the Salehabad Madrasa under the pretext that its land belonged to the
state. Thus, they once again put forward their hatred and antagonism
towards the Sunnite more clearly.
Imam Abdol Ghader Gilani Madrasa located in Asalam town of Gilan was
also demolished a short while ago by the order of the authorities of the
Islamic Republic. This school was one of the most active religious
schools of the Sunnites in Gilan and had a background of 32 years. The
security authorities of the Islamic Republic had no reason to close down
this school. They demolished another religious base of the Iranian
Sunnites under the pretext that the school building was not resistant to
earthquakes.
The escalation of the pressures over the Turkmen clergymen who by
sending an open letter to Khamenei, the religious leader of the Islamic
Republic, advised the return of the independence of the Sunnite
religious schools; the state terrorism against the Baluchi clergymen;
the sentences of capital punishment and imprisonment, the closure of the
religious schools in Asalam and Talesh of the Sunnite Azerbaijani Turks;
the arrest of the Sunnite Azerbaijani Turkish intellectuals in Zanjan;
the prohibition of the Friday prayers of the Sunnites in Zanjan; the
closure of the Turkmen mosques and madrasas in Torbat-e Jam and Bojnord;
the destruction of the Sunnite Mosques in Shiraz and Mashhad etc. All of
these indicate that the regime of the Islamic Republic is in the pursuit
of exterminating the Sunnites in Iran.
The Islamic Republic is performing genocide towards the Sunnites in the
presence of the whole world. According to the UN Convention on the
Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the annihilation of
a nation, tribe, race or sect is a crime and should be chased.
According to the article 18 of the Human Rights Declaration "Everyone
has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion". However,
the Islamic Republic tramples on these fundamental human rights and
sends the opponents to the scaffold.
The regime of the Islamic Republic is neither a Republic nor Islamic.
This regime is a dictatorship that is the black sheep of civilized
society in the 21st century.That regime is a regime in which 70 million
is confined. 70 million from different colors, languages, nationalities,
races and sects.
As Turkmensahra Liberation Organization, we severely condemn the
assaults of the Islamic Republic towards the beliefs of the Sunnites and
Turkmens and warn this dictator regime that it is the end of the road.
Nationalities and various sects in Iran will teach this regime a lesson
that will make history forever. Certainly, that day is not that far.
TURKMENSAHRA LIBERATION ORGANIZATION
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