Saudi Shiites worry about backlash from Yemen war
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Recent posts have insulted Shiites as “rawafidh,” or Islamic rejectionists. “The rawafidh is a downtrodden nation,” said a message from a well-known extremist group known as the Saudi Society. “It’s not an acceptable religion.”
Some tweets even praise Iraq’s late dictator Saddam Hussein, a Sunni, for his repression of Shiites. A hard-line cleric, Abdulaziz Toufayfe, mocked the Shiite tradition of visiting family burial sites. “People of idols, worshippers of graves,” he wrote in a message.
It was retweeted more than 12,000 times.