Shiite
Saudi clerics warned Sunday
against taking up arms
against the authorities in the Sunni-ruled kingdom, in the wake of sporadic
violence that has rocked the country's Shiite-dominate east. Demonstrations in Eastern Province, where most of the kingdom's two million Shiites live, erupted simultaneously with a protest movement in neighbouring Bahrain in 2011. The 10 influential
clerics from Eastern Province said in the statement received by AFP that "using
violence and arms
against the state is rejected and condemned". They also warned
Shiite Muslims in the kingdom from "being lured into
violence and extremism... which complicates matters and serves enemies." The
clerics insisted that religion demands achieving "security and stability in the country" and that "political
violence destroys the nation".
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