Al-Sadr calls for caution against the Corona virus 

The leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, called today, Saturday, for caution against the Corona virus in the country.  

Al-Sadr said in a tweet to him, which was followed by the Iraqi News Agency (INA): “In every New Year we see huge celebrations, and this continued even after the spread of the pandemic that requires social distancing and health prevention, and this is very unfortunate, especially after paying attention to that one of the reasons for the start of the pandemic is such gatherings are outside the scope of legal, moral, ethical, social and other protection.  

And he continued: "If I and like myself are among the clergy, as they express, we hastened to prohibit or criticize these gatherings, we would have been the subject of sharp criticism from some boys or from some liberals in an irrational manner, but we do not see that stinging criticism directed at some European countries that banned gatherings and celebrations in the head their year, due to the spreading epidemic." . 

Al-Sadr asked: "Isn't the epidemic itself prevalent in our beloved Iraq? Or are the health measures not less in our beloved Iraq, and therefore it is necessary that we (follow the example of the West) in preventing them from celebrating? .  

Also Al-Sadr said: "We, as legislators, have prohibited many religious gatherings, such as Friday prayers gatherings,although some of them, unfortunately, do not reach the same number as New Year's gatherings in terms of numbers.". 

He pointed out that "many have abandoned religion and put on the clothes of decadent liberation for reasons that may be due to some religious people, according to their claims, and we think that they are for psychological, satisfactory and sensual reasons only."