A six-year-old boy was beheaded in Saudi Arabia for “belonging to the wrong religion” in February, according to reports.
The child and his mother were allegedly approached while visiting a shrine to the Prophet Muhammad in Medina and asked if they were Shia Muslims.
The mother reportedly said yes, however several minutes later a car pulled up beside them and her young son was snatched away from her.
The boy – named locally as Zakaria Al-Jaber – was repeatedly stabbed in the neck with a piece of broken glass until his head was removed from his body, it is claimed.
His helpless mother could only watch and scream as the radical Shia Muslims murdered her son.
Mirror reports: Saudi Arabia’s predominant branch of Islam is Sunni, accounting for around three quarters of the population.
Human rights groups say practitioners of other forms of the faith – including Shia – are persecuted.
Shia Rights Watch, a Washington DC-based campaign group, said: “There was no intervention from anyone and no response from authority thus far.
“The Saudi Shia community came together in mourning and to show solidarity with the parents.
“The community also reported this incident is a result of ongoing violations and lack of protection by the Saudi authority toward its Shia population.
“Saudi Shia have been under military crackdown by their government and many Shia are in prisons and on death toll.”
Video from the boy’s funeral can be viewed below:
Baxter Dmitry
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