Youth Fighting outside the Prophet’s (s) Mosque in Madinah, Some Arrested
- Filed under: News, Sad, Saudi Arabia
- Date: Feb 27,2009 | 09:49 AM
Update: Here is a video from the incident:
News articles:
MADINAH: Madinah Gov. Prince Abdul Aziz bin Majed ordered yesterday the release of all youths under 18 detained in connection with a fight near the Prophet’s Mosque early this week.
The order was issued on the directive of Interior Minister Prince Naif.
The youths are to be released on guarantees from their guardians.
The investigation into the involvement of other detainees in the fight would continue, Col.
Mohsin Al-Radadi, Madinah police spokesman, told Arab News yesterday.
The youths clashed with worshippers at the mosque on Monday evening but there were no casualties.
Another source claims it was a Sunni vs. Shia fight. The Shia were pilgrims, while the Sunnis were the mutawwa or religious police:
Nine held in clashes at Madinah
RIYADH: Saudi authorities have arrested nine people following clashes at the Prophet Muhammad’s mosque in Madinah, an official said yesterday. Some pilgrims clashed with worshippers at the mosque but there were no casualties, interior ministry spokesman Mansur al-Turki said.
Turki declined to comment on reports on Shia websites that the clashes were sectarian and pitted Shias against Sunnis.
“The security authorities will issue a statement later to clarify what happened, the nationalities of the participants in the fight and their motives, once the investigation is over,” Turki said.
Saudi newspapers have reported that on Friday religious police at a shrine in Madinah clashed with pilgrims, who responded by hurling stones at a police station.
Iran’s Arab-language satellite channel quoted witnesses as saying that on Monday evening two Saudi Shias from Al-Qatif in the oil-rich east of the kingdom were killed and four others wounded by anti-riot police.
Saudi group Human Rights First said religious police had attacked Shia pilgrims in Madinah. They condemned the attack, calling on the government to launch an investigation and bring the perpetrators to justice. – AFP
I don’t really know where the truth is, but I’ll update as I find reliable sources, inshaAllah.
19 Responses for "Youth Fighting outside the Prophet’s (s) Mosque in Madinah, Some Arrested"
Wow, this looks so predictable. I will certainly be interested in hearing the facts and regardless of what they are I’m not going to judge any of the parties involved.
If indeed it turns out that it was of sectarian motivation, it’s not a surprise that neither side took the upper hand and came up with any other ideas than violence. I’m a shi’i muslim but in no way am I going to blame this on the Saudi, by this point have there not been literally an infinite number of instances of intolerance from individuals on both sides? How can one from either “camp” claim to be outraged at this? Those who bemoan the attack on the shi’a (IF that turns out to be what it was) ought to look closely at how little rights the sunnis and baha’i are given in Iran. Those who blame the shi’a for starting it (IF that turns out to be the case) need not look far either for individuals transgressing standards of morality on behalf of the sunni cause.
It should be abundantly clear that even IF one party is decisively in error (and people’s understandings of religion isn’t based in subjective phenomena, i.e. how we look at the past, how we interpret texts) then most certainly the Prophet would not have wanted the parties to attack each other.
Again IF this is sectarian-motivated, it seems these people seem to believe in their sect more than they believe in God. Loyalties to sect might necessitate violence but not loyalty to God, and yet they choose violence.
This intolerant ideology that is prevalent on both sides (even if THIS event isn’t sectarian-motivated) is out of a desire to make others uniform with oneself. No one is ever going to achieve that, and indeed there is Divine wisdom pointing the opposite direction, as per Qur’an 11.118 and Qur’an 49.13.
If we see others following islam “Improperly” how about instead of immediately assuming they are wrong (because we know a few hadiths) let us maybe pause to consider that ones relationship to God is sacred and is not about form but about sincerity of devotion.
Whatever happened to not raising ure voice in the presence of our beloved prophet. The best of creation. ALLAH HU AKBAR.
This is what Ahmed Al-Omran, the famous Saudi (and Shiite) blogger has to say about this:
I’m with him here.
subhan allah…this is the first i hear of this…so i looked up the news sites and it says this happened on tuesday.
anyway this is what i found so far, a couple of videos…you can see who are the aggressors…a3oothbillah kids stealing the sand of the top of the grave of fatima radiya allah anha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_BY39tnOkw
and
http://www.alwantv.com/play.php?vid=1353
they say the women created a distraction outside the baqi3..while they send the men and kids to go steal sand from the grave site..
Wait, this kids were trying to unearth the grave?
what pilgrimage shias are making? this is Rabi’-ul-awal. Were they trying to desecrate the graves or seek blessings?
Subhanallah this is really really bad and completely unacceptable. I hope the appropriate precautions will be taken to ensure this doesn’t happen again, ever.
chuah: do you mean that the women’s salal alan Nabi in the viedo that MR posted were being said as a distraction to facilitate this desecration?
They must be fighting as we can only fight in our land not in others.
@ hassan…i too have no idea what pilgrimage was going on.
@stranger… it was from a report i read that the women had a mass demonstration outside the grave site….heres the video to show that
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdTVWasDPV8&feature=related
what was also reported that the demonstration and breaking into the baqi3 took an hour before the police intervened.
i am with what the religious police has done with those fake muslims.
All of us that the she’i doctrin urges for cursing the SAHABAH
I have no idea what is going on here…can someone explain what this was about?
Just say what happened–not who was to blame, at least.
what does the shias shearcging there they are not believers they are mushrik-keen let ALLAH destroy them all bcs they are traitors of ALLAH traitors of ISLAM and traitors of MUhammad s.a.w.s they have their own faith and they have their own Qiblah and that is that f**ed qerbela by MOWAHID-DEEN
ALLAHU AKBAR SHARIAH LAW IS GETTING IN THE LAND OF THE MUSLIMINS AND MUSLIMS ARE TRIUMPHING ALLAH IS HELPING THE TRUE BELIEVERS AND I WNNA SAY THAT IF SOMEONE DONT LIKE THE LAW OF ALLAH S.W.T HE IS A DAMMN KAFIR WITH A IJMAAH OF ALL AHLU SUNNAH WEL JEMAAH SCHOOLARS by:MOWAHID-DEEN
subhanallah, muslim people must respect the grave of the prophet Mohammad s.a.w, wether you are a muslim shi`i or sunni, after all they have nothing to gain whatever the damages they made for it, Allah S.W.T knows best, damaging the prophet`s grave is just a creation of disputes among muslim. May Allah Swt guides you to the right path(shia) you dont know what you did. ALLAHU AKBAR!!!!!
hope you`ve learnd your lesson, dont do it again(shia) Allah swt will curse you for such doing it again.
What are mushrik shias doing there?Disrespecting rafidha! By God i would not have allowed them in the two cities if the decision was in my hands!
lol that was about the worst news story i’ve ever read. it left us more confused then knowing anything at all.
they should ban all shia from the Baqee. they are crazy and all they do is wail and cry like hyenas.
All shia’s should be banned to visit baqee.. These shia’s also tried earlier i.e. July 1986-87,, to damage kaaba as well.. Now they pointed towards madina.. These are not muslims & SAUDI athorities must take some action to never allow these kuffar’s to enter macca & madina.. These shia’s are haters of sahaba’s(ra).. Inshallah ALLAH’s curse will be seen on these peoples soon..