Bahrain’s Ayatollah Qasim Warns Against American Domination

In a statement issued on September 29, 2026, Ayatollah Isa Ahmed Qasim addresses Arab, Muslim, and other populations threatened by American domination.

Ayatollah Qasim criticises governments for supporting US policies, stressing that such allegiance undermines sovereignty, human dignity, moral values, and social stability.

Below is the full text of the statement:

In the Name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful

May blessings and peace be upon our master, the Seal of the Prophets and Messengers, and upon his pure and immaculate family.

O peoples of the Arab countries, O peoples of the Muslim countries, O peoples of other countries threatened by American domination:

Tell the official regimes ruling over you, which have taken America as a lord and god instead of Allah, and which provide it with the means of a false claim to lordship through absolute allegiance and obedience, or through money, manpower, and lives; which drive whoever they can among the people of their countries along this path of allegiance, and offer money, lives, and every means of support to the false deity they worship in all its brutal wars of aggression—of which there are so many—and in its unjust expansion across the earth, crushing governments and peoples through the illegitimate power it has amassed through plunder and aggression.

Tell them that your ignorant, deluded lord, whom you have chosen as a lord instead of the true Lord and God, stands for oppression without justice, cruelty without compassion, greed without limits, tyranny without end, a thirst for blood, contempt for honour, rebellion against values, and denial of human dignity.

He sees his friends as slaves to him and to those who obey him—fools whom he has managed to use to climb toward his base objectives, satisfy his diseased psyche, and achieve whatever his absolute wickedness dictates.

Tell them: even if you have abandoned every connection to religion, every trace of values, every sense of dignity, and every mark of humanity, and have found all of this agreeable to you in exchange for a precarious seat of power and the delusional feeling of possessing the glory of falsely controlling this or that oppressed people, all of this stands in contradiction to what Almighty Allah has bestowed upon His servants: a pure innate disposition, sound reason, noble sentiments, and an aspiration toward perfection.

It is truly astonishing, utterly bewildering, that you should offer yourselves and all your capabilities to empower one whom you know with certainty, through his own statements, seeks nothing in this life except that everyone submit to him, that every will be crushed before his will, and that every person of dignity be brought low before him.

Otherwise, there is war, crushing, all-encompassing fire, and destruction that makes no distinction between the peaceful and the combatant, the young and the old, the near and the far, and chaos that extinguishes life.

And if the peoples were not to speak their word, or delayed speaking it beyond its proper time, their crime against themselves would be beyond measure.

Wisdom, wisdom. Awareness, awareness, O all people, before it is too late.

Isa Ahmed Qasim

29 September 2026

18 Rabi' al-Thani 1448