Iraq’s al-Maliki ‘Reaffirms’ Saudi Arabia Will Be Destroyed
SputnikNews.com
02.01.2016
Iraqi political leader Nouri al-Maliki said that the execution of a Shia Cleric would topple Saudi Arabia’s rulers.
Iraq’s former prime minister and head of the Islamic Dawa Party, Nouri al-Maliki condemned Saudi Arabia’s execution of Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, pledging that the act would bring down the Saudi rulers.
In his condemnation al-Maliki himself used sectarian language, referring to the execution of Shiite cleric Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr, founder of the Dawa Party. Al-Sadr was executed by Saddam Hussein’s Sunni-dominated government in 1980, five months before the beginning of the notoriously destructive Iran-Iraq War.
“We strongly condemn these detestable sectarian practices and affirm that the crime of executing Sheikh al-Nimr will topple the Saudi regime as the crime of executing the martyr [Mohammed Baqir] al-Sadr did to Saddam [Hussein],” al-Maliki said in a message to people of Iraq, published on his Facebook page.
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