The Essence of Shiasm by Muhammad Umar Salah-ud-Deen

Shiasm is, in essence, built upon abuse and revilement; if cursing, condemnation, and vilification were removed from it, nothing substantial would remain. Under the name of tabarra (disavowal), this ill-fated sect engages in endless foul speech, and every major and minor Shi‘i book contains these things in great detail.

Some people are acting shocked by the ranting of the Kuwaiti cleric Yasser al-Khabith, whereas in reality there is nothing surprising about it. The vulgarities he spews are not even a fraction of the disbelief and absurdities found in Shi‘i literature itself. The disagreement between people like Yasser al-Khabith and Hassan Allahyari and many within their own sect is precisely over this: how long should silence under the guise of taqiyyah (dissimulation) continue? If this is how we are described in the books, why hesitate to present it openly before people? And once they are free from the “expediency” of concealing their religion, you can clearly see how the true face of that religion comes into public view—and that is the actual reality.

In truth, within the Shi‘i religion, opportunism and hypocrisy under the label of taqiyyah are elevated to the status of great acts of worship. In Al-Kafi, under chapters such as Bab al-Taqiyyah and Bab al-Kitman, there are dozens—indeed hundreds—of narrations that testify to this. A person can strike two targets with one arrow: gain the reward of practicing taqiyyah and concealing the religion, while at the same time deceiving Ahl us-Sunnah wal Jama'ah into accepting false impressions. What greater and better “religious opportunity” could there be than this?

In 2010, Ali Khamenei played the same game. When Yasser al-Khabith made vile remarks about Umm al-Mu’minin Aisha bint Abi Bakr radiyallahu 'anha, he issued a fatwa stating that insulting the sacred figures of Ahl us-Sunnah wal Jama'ah is forbidden. Many decent people then rushed to defend Khamenei and, by extension, the entire Shi‘i religion. Activists still recite that fatwa morning and evening. Yet if you show them hundreds of clips of Shi‘i preachers insulting and abusing revered Sunni figures, they immediately deny it by claiming these individuals are rebels against Shiasm. In reality, however, they are simply the most direct and honest representatives of it.