Syria’s Grand Mufti Calls on European Countries to Work for Peace
DUBLIN, (ST)- Syria’s Grand Mufti Bader Eddin Hassoun has called on the European countries to work for peace and not to ignore the terrorists’ massacres in Syria.
In a statement on Thursday at the Irish Parliament in Dublin, Hassoun invited the Europeans to visit Syria and see by themselves the crimes committed by the terrorists and not to believe what the misleading media reports about events in Syria.
“Though it is a small country, Ireland can play a big role in making peace,” the Mufti said.
He added that the Syrian state has supported local reconciliation which succeeded in many areas and allowed many Syrians to restore their normal life after getting their legal status settled.
“Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey didn’t like this state of reconciliation, so they ordered their terrorist tools to threaten all who accept reconciliation of being killed,” the Grand Mufti clarified.
He pointed out that the terrorist organizations positioned in some Aleppo districts and which are described by the West as “moderate opposition”, have targeted the locals with thousands of shells killing hundreds of people including children and women.
“The shells of this moderate opposition killed children celebrating Christmas in 2014,” the mufti went on to say.
He added that the terrorist groups also used chemical weapon to kill our people. “I invite you to come and see the truth by yourself,” he said.
The Mufti stressed that “Iran and Russia came to Syria to defend it whereas the terrorists came from more than a hundred countries to destroy the Syrian State.”
He hailed the peaceful Irish people, stressing that Ireland never colonized or attacked any country.
Syria’s Grand Mufti is visiting Ireland at the official invitation of the Irish Parliament within a Syrian delegation that includes Muslim and Christian clerics, such as His Beatitude Gregory III Laham, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, the spiritual leader of the world’s Melkite Greek Catholic Chruch; His Holiness Ignatius Aphrem II of Antioch, world’s spiritual leader of the Syriac Orthodox Church.
Hamda Mustafa