Hawzah News Agency- Speaking on the Al-Kawthar television program "Child Martyrs of Minab, the Voice of the Ummah's Oppression," Hojatoleslam Rasoul Baqeri sharply criticized the silence of certain Islamic circles in the face of atrocities against children in Gaza and Minab.
Addressing the scholars and elites of the Islamic world, Baqeri said: "Today, the Islamic Ummah needs your voice, your courage, and your clear and unequivocal stances more than ever before. If the scholars do not speak out now, who will? And if the elites of the Ummah do not awaken, who will awaken the Ummah?"
Pointing to the savage crimes unfolding in Gaza, he said: "Look at Gaza, look at the children of Gaza — children whose bodies were torn apart by American bombs, children who burned under the rubble, children who never even had the chance to understand the meaning of life."
Baqeri then turned to the Minab tragedy, insisting it has not received the attention it demands. "Do you know what happened in Minab? Do you know that 168 children were martyred in a single day? One hundred and sixty-eight children — that means 168 dreams, 168 smiles, 168 homes whose light was extinguished forever. What human conscience can bear this catastrophe?"
He noted that even inside the United States, some officials and government members could not keep silent. "They protested, they resigned, they called it a crime. Yet our question to the scholars of the Ummah is this: why do so many still remain silent? Why does it appear that some of them are more sensitive to the security of American bases in the region than to the blood of the children of Minab and Gaza?"
The Qademoun chief pressed further: "Has the blood of the Minab martyrs not awakened you? Have the small, lifeless bodies of children not stirred our hearts? Were the mothers who bid farewell to their children in their arms not enough to jolt the Ummah from its deep slumber?"
He underlined that the genocide in Gaza has continued for two full years with direct American backing and American-supplied missiles. "Yet many of us have settled for a few statements and speeches. Even today, children in Gaza are dying of hunger, perishing under rubble, crushed by siege and famine, yet we still see no serious push to open the Rafah crossing, and the great cry that the Islamic world must raise is nowhere to be heard."
Baqeri expressed dismay that many of those who paid the price for Gaza and were present aboard the "Sumud" flotilla were Western activists, who were arrested, tortured and placed under pressure. "It is painful and shameful that some within the Islamic world appear to race one another to condemn any targeting of American bases, yet show no such urgency in racing to aid the children of Gaza."
In concluding, he warned of the historic and divine responsibility that rests upon all. "The Ummah today needs awakening. It needs scholars who will stand with the oppressed, and elites who will cry out the truth. I swear by God, the blood of the Minab martyrs and the children of Gaza will question us all on the Day of Judgment — about our silence, about our fear, about our failure. History, too, will record the position of every single one of us."
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