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Several moderate Iranian religious researchers and thinkers have criticized the “blasphemy policy” of the Iranian regime, in response to a statement issued by a group of hardline clerics close to the “infidel” Iranian leader Ali Khamenei in which Iraqi cleric Kamal Al -Haidari.
Al-Haidari sparked widespread controversy in Iraq and Iran after he appeared on a program broadcast on the official Iraqi channel this month, in which he argued that Shiite scholars “atone for” their opponents.
The host of the program was forced to stop his program after hours of accusations made against him by the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, who demanded that “television discussions between Islamists and secularists must not be in the hands of tendencies cunning, tendentious and suspicious. “
Al-Sadr also criticized Al-Haidari at the time, saying that he tried, through these statements, “to show his weak legal muscles.”
The statement by hardline Iranian clerics did not differ from al-Sadr’s position. The group of teachers and teachers from the Iranian seminary in Qom and other clerics close to the Wilayat al-Faqih regime issued multiple statements attacking al-Haidari, some of whom accused him of “infidelity”.
Commenting on these positions, Iranian thinkers and writers, some of them residing within the country and others outside it, expressed their “deep concern over the spread of the wave of suffocation and the popularity of Takfiri literature at the Qom seminary.” .
In a statement signed by 15 Iranian personalities who described themselves as a “group of Iranian religious modernists,” they said: “The bitter irony of the matter is that one of the jurists used the takfir method against another jurist to demonstrate that the Shi’ite jurisprudence is not takfiri. “
The signatories of the statement asked: “How can our jurists raise the slogan of rapprochement with the Sunnis and dialogue with other religions and even atheists, and in the event that a Shiite jurist cannot speak to another jurist except in the language of unbelief and deception? “
The statement called on “all anti-takfir scholars in the Shiite world not to remain silent in the face of this new wave of takfiri, and to promote the policy of accepting criticism and other opinion.”
Former Tehran University professor Hassan Hashemian said: “The issue of atonement has its roots in the religious seminaries of the Iranian regime, including the group of teachers in Qom.”
Hashemian added to the Al-Hurra website: “This group is a government institution that defends the goals and political ideas of the ruling regime, and tries to confront any movement at home that violates the tendencies of the legal regime’s tutelage or represents a threat to him, especially in religious seminaries. “
“The thinkers’ statement was not issued in defense of Al-Haidari, who was part of the Iranian regime at some point, but came to defend the principle of freedom of opinion and the guarantee of freedom of thought,” Hashemian said, who lives in the United States.
Hashemian reveals that “the religious authority in Iran did not stop attacking Al-Haidari, but closed his office in Qom and blocked his official website on the Internet, and he was transferred to an unknown destination in Tehran.”
The Iranian professor lists many similar incidents that occurred in the past, “the most prominent of which is the incident that prevented the son of one of the prominent founders of the Qom seminary, Ayatollah Borujerdi, from spreading his scientific message and attacking him.” , and emphasizes that the idea of atonement among religious seminaries in Iran may be more severe than ISIS.
