Bahrain strips top cleric of nationality

Bahrain’s government on Monday stripped a leading opposition cleric of his nationality for promoting sectarianism.
The Bahrain News Agency quoted the Interior Ministry as saying that Sheikh Isa Qassim had played a key role in creating an extremist sectarian atmosphere and had formed groups that “follow foreign religious ideologies and political entities.”
After the decision was announced, several hundred of Qassim’s supporters gathered outside of his house in the mostly Shiite village of Diraz, carrying posters and chanting religious slogans. 
The Interior Ministry statement said Qassim had endorsed “the theory of theocracy” and had used his sermons to serve foreign interests. It said Qassim had harmed the supreme interests of the country in doing so.
An article of the law in Bahrain allows the government to strip citizens of their nationality if “the person causes harm to the security of the state.”

Source: Arab News