Hawzah News Agency- In a hard-hitting statement, Al-Wefaq asserted that the regime's efforts to brand centuries-old religious rituals — rooted in the extraction of legitimate religious dues — as criminal acts, and its fabrication of accusations that effectively criminalize the Jafari school of thought, constitute "a sectarian measure devoid of any legitimacy whatsoever."
A Ruling Crisis That Weaponizes the Entire State Against Shias
The statement painted a damning picture of a regime in the grip of an existential crisis, one that has transformed every lever of power and every state institution into an instrument for outlawing the presence of Shias in Bahrain.
"Criminalizing one of the branches of religion for Shias, through usurpation, domination by force, and brazen arrogance, falls squarely within the framework of collective punishment based on sect," Al-Wefaq declared. "It is carried out through the systematic and premeditated weakening of Shia citizens by marginalizing them and eliminating their representation within the structure of the state — a scheme designed years ago and now unfolding with surgical precision."
Unprecedented Arrest Campaign Targets Clerics, Elites, and Representatives of Grand Ayatollahs
The opposition group further revealed that the regime has launched a hostile dragnet targeting frontline activist scholars, senior preachers, religious elites from every corner of Bahrain, and the representatives of all Shia sources of emulation. The arrests, Al-Wefaq stressed, are being executed without any legal justification or documentary basis whatsoever.
"This is an attempt to criminalize them solely for their adherence to their beliefs and their religious and social rituals — an act unprecedented in the history of Bahrain or in the governance of any Islamic country," the statement read.
State Media Deployed as Weapon of Hate and Incitement
Al-Wefaq detailed how the crackdown is advancing through an entire arsenal of state apparatuses — political, legal, executive, and judicial — all marching to a single, coordinated command. State-run media outlets, the group charged, have been mobilized to disseminate lies, sow hatred, incite sectarian animosity, and fan the flames of communal rancor in order to justify the regime's targeting of its own citizens.
A Reign of Sectarian Madness Without Precedent
"What Bahrain is witnessing these days — from the intensification of repression and targeting to unbridled behavior and an unprecedented sectarian madness — is being carried out without any domestic justification and is setting a dangerous precedent aimed at terrifying and intimidating Shia citizens from performing their acts of worship and religious rites," Al-Wefaq warned.
International Community Must End Its Silence
The Islamic society cautioned that the continued administration of the country through a sectarian mindset rooted in violence, intimidation, isolation, and the erasure of an indigenous and vast segment of the population — treated as a deleted class forced to pay the price for its own collective, religious, and social security — demands an urgent stance from all relevant international parties, the United Nations, and humanitarian and human rights bodies.
"The world must shoulder its legal and moral responsibility for what is unfolding," Al-Wefaq insisted.
Only a Democratic System Can Save Bahrain
Al-Wefaq concluded by reiterating that the sole solution to the Bahraini crisis lies in the establishment of a democratic political system founded on freedoms and political participation, describing it as the only option capable of safeguarding political diversity and plurality.
"Despotic and dictatorial systems cannot provide security, stability, freedom, and peace for their nations," the statement emphasized, pointing to the recurring cycles of repression that have claimed tens of thousands of victims in Bahrain — in their lives, livelihoods, religious freedoms, social conduct, sectarian identity, and the most elementary natural rights.
"These are rights that even the most brutal dictatorships in the world do not violate," Al-Wefaq declared.
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