The destruction of another Sunni mosque in Iran and its

consequences
Reza Hossein Borr - 8/27/2008
www.tenteradajjal.blogspot.com

The security forces of Iran attacked a mosque and a religious school at three o'clock in the
morning today, 27 August 2008, arrested the students and staff and destroyed the mosque and the
religious school in the North East of Baluchistan, Iran. The security forces used several
bulldozers and tractors to completely destroy the building of Imam Abu Hanifa Mosque in
Azimabad, a suburb of the city of Zabol. Nobody knows what has happened to the students,
teachers and staff of the school and the mosque. The people who witnessed this morning
operations observed that the students and teachers were very frightened. The security forces
began beating them as soon as they attacked the school and bundled them into secure police cars
as they were crying and screaming. The attack happened at a time that all of the students and
staff were sleeping. There was not any warning by the police or security forces about the
destruction of the mosque and the school.
The Iranian authorities destroyed another mosque about a year ago in the northern part of Iran
and its Imam and staff were arrested and thrown into prison. Several mosques which belonged to
the Sunnis of Iran have been destroyed since the emergence of the Shia fanatic Republic of Iran.
There are 15 to 20 million Sunnis in Iran. They have been discriminated against systematically.
Molana Ahamad Narouee, the deputy director of the main theological school in Zahedan was
arrested two weeks ago. The security forces have demanded that the religious school must expel
all foreign students who are studying at the school. According to the head of the school a small
number of students from the Central Asian republics are studying in the school. But they have
been denied students visas. There are hundreds of Shia students from the Central Asian republics
who are studying in different Shia theological schools of Iran.
Fifteen thousand foreign students are studying in the Iranian Shia schools. The Iranian regime
has given them scholarship and pays for their families too. These students learn the Iranian
version of Shia which believes the Sunnis are infidels. The students will return back to their
home countries with very strong radical, militant and anti-Sunni studies which will create
enormous divisions between the Sunnis and Shia population of Islamic countries.
Imam Abu Hanifa Mosque was destroyed once before and the people had to relocate it. The
religious leaders of Baluchistan and Iran protested against destruction of the Sunni mosques but
so far the Iranian regime has continued its policy of destroying Sunni mosques in different parts
of Iran while it is building new Shia mosques in Sunni dominated villages and cities. The Irna
news agency reported on 25th of August that the government has sent 600 Shia missionaries to
the Sunni dominated areas of Baluchistan to convert the Sunnis in Islam as if the Sunnis are not
Moslems. The way they have trained these missionaries indicate that they clearly believe that the
Sunnis are not Moslems and they must be converted into Shiism which is the real Islam. The
process of Shiaeezation of the Sunnis began from the beginning of Islamic Republic but so far
the regime has very little success in converting the Sunnis into Shiism, yet the financial rewards
that the Iranian regime is providing for the newly-converted Moslems
( Shia) have been very tempting as some of the Afghani and Pakistani Shias have gone to Iran
and claimed to be Baluch Sunnis and they were ready to have the honour of becoming Moslems
(Shia). The Shia fanatic regime pays thousands of dollars to the newly converted Shias to

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persuade them to convert their relatives and children. Consequently some bloody disputes have
happened among the members of the same family who have refused to change their religion.

The destruction of Imam Abu Hanifa Mosque in Azimabad will not be the last onslaught of the
Shia regime on the Sunnis of Iran. The Iranian constitution allows diversity of religion and
respects the performance of religious duties but the Iranian regime ignores its own constitution
and arrests religious leaders, destroys the Sunni schools and mosques. In reaction to the
systematic Shia offensive on the Baluch and other Sunnis of Iran, the process of intensification
of religious feelings in Sunnis are widening and deepening all over ran. As the Iranian regime
defines itself as the lawful and legitimate heritage of Islam, the Iranian Sunnis have responded by
identifying themselves as true Moslems.
The Iranian Sunnis were usually secular minded people but the Shia aggression has turned them
into Sunni political militants. Lack of support by the international community and Islamic
countries have pushed the Sunni Muslims of Iran towards the only sources of support that are
available and they are Taleban and Alqaedah. The international community could have supported
the Sunnis of Iran to move them away from Taleban and Alqaedah but it seems that there is a
concerted effort to allow the Islamic Shia regime of Iran to continue the oppression of the
Sunnis. There was some news that some young Iranian Sunnis who have been disappointed by
the Islamic and Arab governments have become sympathetic to Taleban. The majority of the
people who live in the Eastern part of Iran are Sunnis and when they become sympathetic to
Taleban, the movement of Taleban and Alqaedah members and the power of their manoeuvres in
the region become more dynamic and widespread. The pressure by the government on the Sunnis
is so brutal that the Sunnis feel desperate for any kind of help which relieves some of the
pressures on them. The Sunni governments and countries so far have refused to help them
directly as the Iranian regime is widely supporting the Shias of all countries, or exerting some
practical pressure on the Iranian regime to stop further discrimination and pressure on them.
The international community must use all United Nations Conventions and human rights charters
which allow freedom of worship to exert pressure on the Iranian regime to halt the destruction of
Sunni mosques and media onslaught on Sunni principles. The Iranian Sunnis witness everyday
unbearable offences against the Sunni principles of Islam. The intensification of pressure on
Sunnis would have severe consequences, not only for Iran and Iranians but also for international
community when the patience of Sunnis ran out and a religious war between the two sects of
Islam may begin. At the same time when the pressure becomes unbearable on the Sunnis of Iran
they may look for separation from Iran as their locations are located near the borders of Iran with
other countries.
The Iranian government, the Shia population of Iran and the opposition groups of Iran, Iranian
intellectuals, journalists and human rights activists will be responsible for any civil or religious
war in Iran or for any separatist movement that maybe created in Iran if they do not stop the
regime from further execution of the Sunni leaders and destruction of their schools, mosques and
violations of their rights. The political, social and cultural discrimination against the Sunnis
would have added consequences in which the Sunni people of Iran will lose any hope for a better
life in Iran. Those Iranian who choose silence over the brutal oppression of the Iranian
nationalities and Sunnis will be responsible for any civil war that might follow as the
consequence of these repressive policies.
Reza Hossein Borr is a leadership consultant and the creator of 150 CDs and 14 Change
management models. He is also the author of Manual Success, Manual of Coaching and
Mentoring, Motivational Stories that Can Change Your Life, and a New Vision for the Islamic

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World. He can be contacted by email: balochfront@aol.com

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