Yasser Al-Habib

Sheikh Yasser Yahya Abdullah al -Habib ( born January 20, 1979 in Kuwait, Arabic: ياسر الحبيب ) is a Shiite cleric from Kuwait.

Life

Yasser Al -Habib lives in London and is the leader of the organization Khoddam al -Mahdi (Arabic: هيئة خدام المهدي - Khoddam Al -Mahdi ). He completed his education with a BA in political science at the University of Kuwait. The International Religious Freedom Report 2004 reported that Yasser had denigrated the Sunni belief in a sound recording from December 2003. Yasser Al -Habib showed in words and writings Shiites Abu Bakr and Umar with a negative attitude and said that the balance of power between Sunnis and Shiites will turn to.

In September 2010, he angered Sunnis by Aisha, the wife of the Prophet Mohammed, as an "enemy of God" called " Aisha is now in hell, depends on her legs and eats her own flesh. " This led to the loss of his Kuwaiti citizenship.

In October 2010, sought the supreme Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to calm the tensions between Shiites and Sunnis, by issuing a fatwa against insults of companions and wives of the Prophet.