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The Qatif and Dammam mosque bombings occurred on 22 and 29 May 2015. On Friday May 22, a suicide bomber attacked the Shia "Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib Mosque" situated in Qudeih village of Qatif city in Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria claimed responsibility for the blast, which killed at least 21 people. The event is the second deadly attack against Shia in six months.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nationwide outrage over Qatif carnage )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Suicide bomber attacks Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=ISIL claims responsibility for Saudi mosque attack )〕〔 Saudi Minister of Health Khaled Al-Falih, accompanied by senior health officials, visited the injured persons who were hospitalized in the Qatif Central Hospital. The Minister instructed the hospital management to provide the best treatment to those injured in the attack at Al-Qudaih’s Ali Bin Abi Talib Mosque during the Friday prayer on 22 May 2015 in which 21 worshippers lost their lives and 88 people were injured. Al-Falih prayed for speedy recovery of the wounded persons and conveyed condolences on behalf of King Salman, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, to the family members of those killed in the blast. ==Background== An estimated 14% to 15% of the approximately 16 million natives of Saudi Arabia are Shia Muslims, mostly living in the oil-rich areas of the Eastern Province where Qatif is located. The government of Saudi Arabia follows the strict Sunni Islamic "Wahhabi movement", which dominates religious institutions, courts and education of the kingdom and believes that Shia Muslims are not true Muslims; thus Shia have alleged severe discrimination in Saudi Arabia. According to a 2009 Human Rights Watch report, Shia citizens in Saudi Arabia "face systematic discrimination in religion, education, justice, and employment". The report alleged widespread discrimination against Saudi Shia, including restrictions in the state education system, where Shia students were forbidden from learning about their religion and told they were unbelievers by Sunni teachers. Judges often ban Shia witnesses during trials because of their faith and bar Shia from taking jobs in government ministries or the military. In the weekly sermons in the mosques, Shiites are regularly denounced has heretics and infidels. At the time of the incident, the Syrian civil war spawned the creation of ISIS, which also gained prominence in Iraq before spreading to other places in the region. Saudi Arabia was also partaking in bombings during the Yemeni civil war. In November 2014, eight Shia worshippers were killed by gunmen during Ashura celebrations at a shrine in the city of al-Ahsa. Jafar Al Shayeb, a member of the Qatif municipal council, says that sectarian tensions have already risen sharply as a result of the war Saudi Arabia’s new King Salman is waging against the Houthis and that divisive rhetoric from Wahhabi preachers was increasing. He believes that the situation for Saudi Shia was about to get worse.〔 Critics point out that the government has done nothing to address rising sectarian tensions in the country. The country is built on the Wahhabi creed of Islam, whose ideology shares many similarities with that of ISIS. Hours before the bombing, one imam in Riyadh was quoted as telling devout worshippers at the end of Friday prayers: “Allah, attack all the Shia everywhere; Allah, send them earthquakes; Allah, kill them all.” 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Qatif and Dammam mosque bombings」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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