Pro-Assad Imam shot dead in Damascus [videos included]

Russia Today
February 16, 2012

A leading religious figure has been assassinated in the conservative Midan area of the Syrian capital Damascus.

Sheik Mohammad Ahmad Ouf Sadeq was an imam at the mosque Anas bin Malek. When he was returning to the capital on Wednesday, an armed group intercepted his vehicle in Qadam Assali, in the Damascus suburbs. Sadeq, 36, had a Ph.D. in Sharia law, and is survived by four children. Some think the religious leader was killed because of his strong pro-Assad position, as he is said to have strongly condemned a January 6 terrorist attack Midan and called for national unity.

According to supporters of the imam, those who killed him want more bloodshed in the country.

“He was killed because he was calling for reform and the end of clashes,” said Sheikh Housaim Shouaib.“Those who did it – they only want chaos and more death.”

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