Southern Protesters Fatwa’ed, Sue
Al-Sahwa
Retirees and jobless youths sue mosque preacher
The Coordination Council of Military and Civil Retirees’ Societies and jobless youth associations in the governorates of Aden, Dhale’, Lahj, Abyan, Shabwa, Mahrah and Hadramout, filed a lawsuit against Nasser Al-Shaibani, Preacher of Al-Janad Mosque for instigating security personnel to exercise violence against protestors while giving the Eid sermon, the weekly newspaper reported in its lead story. Filed by the defense-advocate Ali Mahmoud Al-Araziqi to Taiz Appeal Prosecution, the lawsuit demanded investigating the defendant Nasser Al-Shaibani for calling retirees disbelievers.
According to the newspaper, the suit included several charges against Al-Shaibani, who gave a fatwa permitting bloodshed of protestors and demonstrators, who claim their constitutional rights during the Eid sermon before President of the Republic. The retirees societies also threatened to sue a penal action against Al-Shaibani to the UN Security Council.
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Fatwa against retired soldiers
Local sources confirmed that the associations of the military and civil retirees lodged a lawsuit against the former Endowment minister Naser Al-Shaibani who made Fatwa that retirees are disbelievers and not Muslims any more. This came in a lawsuit presented by the lawyer, Ali. Al-Azraqi to the court of appeal in Taiz province, where Al-Shaibani delivered the Eid’s sermon in Al-Janad Mosque.
Al-Azraqi said that this lawsuit incitement to murder retired soldiers . He also demanded the investigation with Al-Shaibani whose Fatwa resulted in killing four people and injuring another during the Radfan rally.
The lawsuit also discussed that Al-Shaibani in his Fatwa allowed bloodshed of those who protested and staged sit-ins. It further stated that Al-Shaibani considered the retirees’ associations as communistic and aesthetic, which attempt to Christianize and Americanize the Yemeni people.
Incitement among the southern military associations and the Yemeni authorities have caused worries and agitation in the southern provinces. The military retirees’ associations go into confrontations with the security forces as well.
The situation worsens day after day indicating the futile efforts made by president Ali Abdullah Saleh to contain the crisis aggravated more by the confrontations that occurred between the police and the protesters in Radfan on Wednesday. These confrontations ended by detaining some protesters, making the military retirees associations consider them as an insistence of the authority to exacerbate the crisis.
