Minister Calls for Removing Wahhabi Beliefs from Syrian Society
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Syrian Religious Endowments (Awqaf) Minister Mohammad Abdelsattar al-Sayyed cautioned about the spread of extremist currents in the war-stricken country, saying that Wahhabi beliefs should be shattered in the Syrian society.
The ISIL (also known as Daesh) and other terrorist groups have ousted mosque preachers in any district that they infiltrated and promoted their Wahhabi thoughts in the areas under their occupation, Sayyed said in an interview with the Tasnim News Agency.
“The reconstruction of Syria is not only physical and not limited to laying bricks, but it also includes spiritual (issues),” he noted.
Extremist groups have harmed the Syrian society through promoting their beliefs, the minister said, adding that therefore, such Wahhabi thoughts should be removed from the Arab nation.
Syria has been gripped by civil war since March 2011 with Takfiri terrorists from various groups, including the ISIL, currently controlling parts of it.
The terrorist group claims as an independent state the territory of Iraq and Syria, with implied future claims intended over more of the Levant, including Lebanon, occupied Palestine, Jordan, Cyprus, and Southern Turkey.
The US and its regional allies have been supporting the militants operating inside Syria for more than four years.
More than 220,000 people have been killed in the four-year conflict that has driven 4 million refugees abroad.
