The most influential Iranian Sunni leader has stated the demands of the Sunni community of Iran from the new government by the start of presidential election campaign in Iran. Mawlana Abdol-Hamid asked for the share of the Sunni community in the new cabinet, terming the right of Sunnis.<\/p>\n
The official website of Shaikh Abdol-Hamid reported the speech of him before more than 200.000 Sunni citizens gathered at Darululoom Zahedan to take part in the 26th graduation ceremony of Darululoom Zahedan on Tuesday 25th April, 2017. <\/p>\n
He said: \u201cUnfortunately, 38 years since the revolution have passed but without the participation of the Iranian Sunni community in any cabinet. In the upcoming election we will see who has a wider view. We should examine who is in favor of the whole nation and secondly can resolve the problems of the Sunni community.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cThe Iranian Sunnis will cast their votes in the elections, but they expect to have ministers in the new cabinet. Also there should be vice-president, vice-minister, ambassador and provincial governors from the Sunni community,\u201d the rector of Darululoom Zahedan underlined.<\/p>\n
He urged on peaceful struggle to achieve the rights of the Sunni community and said more: \u201cThe elements which put pressure on governments to employ Sunnis in higher posts are extremists. Governments should resist strongly as we stood against the Sunni extremists. We believe in dialogue and following the case of our rights by negotiation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are against insecurity; rather we have been playing a key role in maintenance of peace and stability in the country. But we never give up our due rights; it is our right to present our demands by different communication sources and the rest of legal and international methods and channels. The Iranian Sunni community demands its religious freedoms to establish prayers and educate children freely,\u201d the prominent Sunni leader made it clear.<\/p>\n
Request from the Supreme Leader<\/strong> He expressed his satisfaction with the services of the Sunni Bloc in the parliament, asking them to pursue the rights of the Sunnis. <\/p>\n Mawlana Abdol-Hamid once again urged on the necessity of the amendment of the constitution. He said: \u201cThe constitution has been approved by the Assembly of Experts and it can be revised and reformed partly. The law which forbids Sunni elites from candidacy to run for presidential election must be changed as it discriminates among the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n The Muslim world crises and resolutions<\/strong> Criticizing the \u2018disability of the international community\u2019 to resolve the crises of the region and said: \u201cThe world powers are infirm to resolve the crises. They avoid from pathology of the crises deliberately. They just want to resolve the problems by force and using weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n He pointed out: \u201cThe UN and its security council also cannot resolve the region\u2019s crises. The members of the SC have differences; if a country decides, the other once exercises \u2018veto\u2019 against it.\u201d<\/p>\n The member of the MWL, then, went on to count the factors behind spread of extremism in the world. He termed \u2018occupation on Palestine by the sinister Israeli regime\u2019 the first reason of extremism. <\/p>\n He said: \u201cThe world\u2019s powers support the regime of Israel instead of putting pressure on it to leave occupation.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe so-called superpowers themselves are responsible for the ongoing extremism in the world; they invaded on Muslim states such as Afghanistan and Iraq. They spread the culture of weapon and militancy by invasion on those countries,\u201d Shaikh Abdol-Hamid emphasized. <\/p>\n He counted \u2018enmity with Islam\u2019 the other cause of extremism in the world. He said: \u201cWhen the copies of the Qur\u2019an are burnt in the US, the blasphemous cartoons of the prophet PBUH are printed and the enmity with Islam emerges, it is clear the feelings of Muslims get lacerated. It provokes some people to take gun and react.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe tyrant regimes imprisoned their opponents instead of listening to them; when they came out, they organized to take revenge. Instead of invasion and calling people towards extremism, there should be a fair pathology into the main reasons of extremism,\u201d Mawlana Abdol-Hamid added more.<\/p>\n He concluded his points by saying: \u201cWe just want the betterment of Muslim nations, but actually we cannot do anything. We are marginalized; otherwise the resolution of the problems and bringing opponents on the table of negotiation to share power is very easy.\u201d<\/p>\n Khateeb of Sunnis also called on both Shia and Sunni communities to respect the sanctities of each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The most influential Iranian Sunni leader has stated the demands of the Sunni community of Iran from the new government by the start of presidential election campaign in Iran. Mawlana Abdol-Hamid asked for the share of the Sunni community in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[29,28,18,15,17],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speeches","tag-darululoom","tag-graduation-ceremony","tag-shaikh-abdol-hamid","tag-speeches","tag-zahedan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdolhamid.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nShaikh Abdol-Hamid clearly said: \u201cWe know the governments in Iran have no full authority; thus the Iranian Sunni community expects the supreme leader will issue an order to resolve the problems of the Sunni community and participation of them in cabinets and other posts.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe most influential Iranian Sunni leader alluded to the ongoing crises of the Muslim world in the 26th graduation ceremony of Darululoom Zahedan and said: \u201cThe crises of the Muslim world should be studied to find out the main reasons of them. The first reason is the negligence of Muslims in acting upon the Shari\u2019ah.\u201d<\/p>\n