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Sheikh Yasser al-Habib (Arabic: ياسر الحبيب born 20 January 1979) is a Muslim Shia cleric, the founder and the head of the London-based Khoddam Al-Mahdi Organization, as well as Al-Muhassin mosque in Fulmer, Buckinghamshire. Al-Habib is well known for his controversial methods in expressing his religious views and his investigations and conclusions in the Islamic history, as well as his incitement of sectarian divisions between Shia's and Sunnis. Al-Habib started his religious activities in Kuwait, wherein he founded a non-profit religious organization named Khoddam Al-Mahdi Organization, and he also expressed his religious views regarding Abu Bakr as-Siddiq and Omar bin al-Khattab, and criticized them sharply, which led to anger the mainstream Sunnis in Kuwait and other Arabic-speaking Sunni communities, and finally led to the arrest of Al-Habib. Later, in February 2004 he was released under an annual pardon announced by the Amir of Kuwait on the occasion of the country's National Day, but his rearrest was ordered a few days later. Al-Habib fled Kuwait before he was sentenced ''in absentia'' to 10 years' imprisonment, and spent months in Iraq and Iran before gaining an asylum in United Kingdom which is his current place of residence. == Early life == Al-Habib was interviewed by Elaph, a well-known Arabic online newspaper, where he stated that he was born in a religious Kuwaiti family, and started his education in the Kuwaiti governmental schools, before joining Kuwait University and graduating from its Political sciences faculty. Besides his secular studies, Al-Habib stated that he studied the traditional Islamic under the guidance of his teacher Ayatollah Mohammed Reza Shirazi. In 2011, he founded Khoddam Al-Mahdi Organization at Kuwait and In 2003, Al-Habib was sentenced to 35 years in prison in Kuwait for insulting Muhammad’s wives and companions, who are revered in Sunni Islam. However, his imprisonment was mysteriously cut short and, in 2004, he was expelled from the country to London, because of his extremism. Then he went to London where Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini Shirazi, younger brother of Sadiq Shirazi, has lived for forty years. Finally he could get asylum in Britain. Now he lives in Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, and had started his religious and political activity such as founding Al Muhassin Mosque and setting up Fadak (TV channel). 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「Yasser Al-Habib」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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