ERBIL-Hewler, Kurdistan region ‘Iraq’,— The Ministry of Culture in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region said that it has prevented a number of books of Saudis advocates because they are influencing young people and contain extremist ideas pursued by Islamic State group (IS).

According to a statement of the ministry, it has carried out this action the same time with the start of Erbil International Book Fair in the region at the beginning of last April and it had asked al-Mada institution to prevent a collection of books for Saudi writers who are; Muhammad ibn Saalih, Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Baz,Mohammed Nasser Eddin al-Albani, Saleh Bin Fawzan, Ibn Taymiyyah and Sheikh Muqbel Hadi bin Mohammed bin Abdul Wahab Al- Weyassani, Mohammed bin Said Raslani and Imam Abu Abdullah Mohammed al-Masnaee and Saddiq Khan al-Albani-Halabi.

According to a letter issued by the Ministry of Culture, signed by the Kurdish Minister, Khaled Abdul Rahman Doski “These books should not be sold in Kurdistan or used because these compositions is one of the main sources for those who follow ISIS extremist ideas and approaches.”

The ministry formed a committee comprising members from the Ministry of Culture and the other from the Ministry of Endowment and one of Erbil preachers stressed that this committee will continue to work to prevent the circulation of these books witting by those authors.

The letter also said that “the committee is currently holding permanent visits to booksellers, libraries, and it is strictly prohibited to sell books or lending (CDs) of those speeches in Kurdistan, or dealing in and taking pledges from libraries in this regard.”

This decision has caused Altercation between the Union of Islamic scholars in Kurdistan and the Ministry of Religious Endowments, which was denied by the Union that have been consulted, while the Relations Manager in the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs of Kurdistan said that the union did not know anything and as no programs, it is busy issuing statements and clarifications only.

On the same issue the Iraq’s Kurdistan Region Government (KRG) is currently working with the Ministries of Endowment & Religious Affairs and Culture to find a legal mechanism with which to close down all local television channels which promote radical (Takfiri) ideologies in the Kurdistan Region.

Also the Ministry of Endowment and Religious Affairs in Iraq’s Kurdistan region said last week said that it has received a request from followers of Zoroastrianism to allow them to practice their religious rituals and help in the construction of their temples after their numbers increased in Kurdistan region.

He explained that the recent months have witnessed the return of those in public and Kurdish cultural circles appreciably, which indicates a migration of Kurdish Muslims to their old Zoroastrian religion .

According to Naqshbandi, one of Zoroastrian spiritual leaders had told him that their number in Kurdistan exceeds 100,000 people and they are constantly increasing.

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