The Centre for Convention on Democratic Integrity (CCDI) has sharply rebuked Islamic cleric Ahmad Gumi for praising Iran’s late Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, calling the tribute “misguided and inflammatory” just days after the Ayatollah’s reported death in a joint United States, Israeli airstrikes.
In a statement released on Monday, CCDI President Olufemi Aduwo said portraying Khamenei as a symbol of justice ignores decades of repression and destabilising foreign policy under his rule. Gumi had described the Ayatollah as dying “in Allah’s cause,” defending oppressed people in Iran and Gaza, including women and children, whom he said had been killed by enemies of the Islamic faith.
He called Khamenei a martyr whose death would inspire transformation across the Muslim Ummah.
Aduwo countered that such rhetoric romanticizes a “theocratic autocrat” whose 37-year reign entrenched authoritarianism rather than.Read Original/Read Complete.
