Condemnation of al-Bouti’s Assassination Continues

CAPITALS,( ST)_The crime of assassinating Scholar Mohammad Saeed Ramadan al-Bouti along with scores of knowledge seekers at al-Iman Mosque in Damascus continued to be a source of condemnation of many religious, political and popular commissions and figures in Syria and abroad.

In Occupied al-Quds, the Popular Committee for solidarity with Syria in occupied al-Quds organized a solidarity stand with Syria at the main gate of a village in the occupied lands of 1948.  The Committee condemned al-Bouti’s assassination crime by takfiri groups.

Palestinians representing different forces and parties in occupied Palestine took part in this event. They lifted placards denouncing the policies of the United States, European countries, Turkey and some Arab countries  which support terrorism in Syria. They also lifted Syrian and Palestinian flags and pictures of martyr scholar al-Bouti.

According to the committee’s Secretary Wasfi Abdul Ghani said this solidarity stand aims at greeting the Syrian people and its national leadership from the heart of Palestine and at affirming the Palestinian people’s support for Syria in the confrontation of the imperialist and Zionist conspiracy.

In Ramallah, West Bank, Archbishop of Sebastia for the Greek Orthodox  Attalla Hanna mourned martyr al-Bouti during a ceremony held on Saturday by the Popular Committee for Defending Syria in occupied Palestine to honor the archbishop.

Hanna announced that he presents his honoring to the soul of scholar  al-Bouti who was martyred while calling for amity and peace among the Syrians.

The archbishop affirmed the necessity of adherence to the values of fraternity and national unity to achieve the hoped for settlement.

During the ceremony, Hanna was awarded with the order of Arab national belongingness in appreciation for his national stances which reject occupation and defend Arab rights.

Imam of al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Salahuddin Bin Ibrahim Abu Arafa said that scholars of princes and palaces foremost of who is Yousef al-Qaradawi have betrayed Quran and the teachings of Islam prophets.

  In a statement to the Syrian TV, Sheikh Arafa  condemned al-Qaradawi’s call which allows the killing a Moslem scholar like martyr al-Bouti, stressing that Islam prohibits killing.

In Paris, the Syrian and Algerian communities in France and a number of expatriate and French people held a rally to express condemnation of the crime of bombing al-Iman Mosque in which scholar al-Bouti along with tens of religious students were martyred. Participants lit candles in respect of the martyrs’ souls.

“Al-Bouti was assassinated because of his standing beside right and peace and against those who have been trying to distort the meaning of Islam so as to serve the United States , Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the petrodollar states.

A member of the Algerian community said martyr al-Bouti supported the Algerian people in the confrontation of the takfiri terrorism which hit Algeria in the 1990s.

Moreover, Former Yemeni President Ali Abdulla Saleh described as a big loss the martyrdom of scholar and Islamic thinker al-Bouti and his companions.

 He said al-Bouti represented Islam’s values of tolerance, moderation, amity which abandon violence and extremism.  

He expressed his condolences to the Syrian people, scholars and the families of the martyrs on this big loss.

H. Mustafa