The ISIL (Daesh) terrorist group, which has been committing crimes against all communities in Syria and Iraq, has called for more attacks against Shias in Saudi Arabia.
ISIL has claimed responsibility for recent bombing attacks targeting two Shia mosques in Saudi Arabia’s Shia-majority Eastern Province.
The Islamist group made the announcement for more attacks against Saudi Shias through one of its groups inside the Saudi kingdom late on Friday night.
Earlier on Friday, a bomb attack targeted the Imam Hussein (PBUH) Mosque in Dammam, the capital city of Eastern Province.
The explosion occurred at the parking lot of the mosque in the oil-rich region, killing four people and wounding several more just a week after the terrorist group attacked another mosque in the region, which killed another 21 people.
The group that made the Friday announcement calls itself Najd Province. It is the same ISIL subsidiary that claimed responsibility for the attacks against the two Shia mosques.
In an audio message posted online, the so-called Najd Province said more should be “killed everywhere.”
ISIL had previously warned of more “black days” for the people living in the Saudi kingdom.
Thousands of mourners who took to the streets in the Eastern Province mourning those killed in the recent bombings have said Saudi Arabia is not doing enough to protect them.
The Saudi regime is under fire from countries and organizations around the world for for its failure to protect religious minorities.
Amnesty International on Friday urged Saudi Arabia to adopt serious measures to protect the Shia minority in the kingdom, saying Riyadh must translate into action its words in condemnation of terrorism and extremism. The London-based human rights organization also called on the government in Riyadh to to carry out a “transparent” probe into the incident.
“Unless the Saudi Arabian authorities are transparent about the investigations they are carrying out into these atrocities, and unless they take serious and effective steps to end discrimination and advocacy of hatred against the Shia, it will fuel perceptions that they are looking the other way while sectarian tensions and violence against Shia intensify,” Amnesty said on Friday.
Following the first ISIL attack on a Shia moque, Saudi King Salman vowed severe punishment for those behind the attack. In a letter to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, King Salman said, “Every participant, planner, supporter, collaborator or sympathiser with this heinous crime will be held accountable, tried and punished.”
