Iran Funding Shi’ite Muslim Centers in Gaza, Israel

ali-khamenei iranShi’ite religious centers have opened for the first time in Gaza, Walla! News reports Tuesday, and are being directly funded by Iran.

The centers, under the name ‘Al-Sabrin,’ (from the Arabic word for ‘patience’) are attempting to spread Shi’ite Islam in the Sunni stronghold, according to the news agency, and are doing so on Tehran’s orders.

Most [Arab Muslims in Israel] are Sunni, and very few people have embraced Shi’ite Islam instead, but this is a completely new phenomenon in Gaza.

Photos of the centers sent to the daily show banners featuring Ayatollah Ruholloh Khamenei, the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, hanging over the entrances. One banner even reads, “good luck to the Iran-Jerusalem axis.”

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