Jamaat Al-Muslimeen backs Palestine; declines comment on terror designations

Shane Su­perville

Se­nior Re­porter

Head of the Ja­maat Al-Mus­limeen, Imam Sadiq Al-Razi, has de­clined to com­ment on the Gov­ern­ment’s re­cent de­ci­sion to des­ig­nate three in­ter­na­tion­al groups as ter­ror­ist or­gan­i­sa­tions—Hezbol­lah, Hamas and Iran’s Is­lam­ic Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Guard Corps (IRGC)—but main­tained his and the in­sti­tu­tion’s con­tin­ued sup­port for Pales­tine.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Al-Razi said he re­mains sup­port­ive of the Pales­tin­ian peo­ple and the dif­fi­cul­ties they face.

“We stand firm­ly with the peo­ple of Pales­tine and all the op­pressed Mus­lims wher­ev­er they are.

“With re­spect to the po­lit­i­cal ma­noeu­vrings of the dif­fer­ent play­ers, that is an­oth­er ques­tion... we don’t have the de­tails as to what is in that re­al­i­ty, but it must be es­tab­lished that as be­liev­ers all of us are broth­ers and we stand with all op­pressed Mus­lims whose rights are be­ing tram­pled.” Al-Razi said the Ja­maat ad­hered to the prin­ci­ples of the Quran.