Hawzah News Agency (Manama, Bahrain) -Sheikh Hussain al-Daihi, the deputy secretary general of the dissolved al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, described Manama’s ban on Friday prayers as unprecedented in the history of Islam.

He argued that Bahraini authorities banned Friday prayers and detained worshippers while they let Israelis indulge in dancing and singing in the kingdom.

The cleric said such double standards attested to deep rift between the Bahraini regime and the nation.

The Manama regime has been intensifying crackdown on Shia Muslims in Bahrain. Authorities stripped the country’s most prominent Shia Muslim cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim of his citizenship on June 20, 2016.

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