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Bahrain To Investigate MP Who Compared Shi'ites To Zionists

The Bahrain Justice Ministry has ordered an investigation against Salafi MP Jassem Al-Sa'idi and has banned him from giving sermons, after he said in a Friday sermon that some Shi'ites in Bahrain were like the Zionists and called them "sons of Zionists in Bahrain."

Sa'idi explained that he had been referring to Shi'ites who planned to carry out terror operations in Bahrain.

Source: Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, London, January 6, 2009

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