Dhiyaa Al-Musawi

Al-Musawi was appointed a member of the Shura Council of Bahrain during the second legislative term in 2006. He was also a two-term member of the Public Utilities and Environment Committee.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}

Dheya is a current member of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs and the Royal Charity Organization (a governmental charity organization sponsoring orphans and widows) and leads the anti-terrorism effort as a Shura Council member.{{cite web | url= https://www.bna.bh/portal/en/news/691476 | title= Bahrain to participate in IPU 133rd Assembly, related meetings | date= 15 October 2015 | work= Bahrain News Agency | accessdate= 21 October 2015}}

In 2014, al-Mousawi ran for the 6th district against four other candidates in Muharraq, Bahrain's third largest city, but withdrew prior to election day.{{cite web|url= https://www.citizensforbahrain.com/index.php/entry/muharraq-governorate-guide-to-bahrain-s-parliamentary-elections|title= Muharraq Governorate - Guide to Bahrain’s Parliamentary Elections | date= 14 November 2014|work= Citizens For Bahrain|accessdate= 4 October 2015}}

Mr. al-Moussawi has a reoccurring article entitled [https://web.archive.org/web/20150423231046/http://albiladpress.com/writer_cv.php?wid=39 Morning Coffee] at the Albilad Press,{{cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ar&u=http://www.albiladpress.com/writer_cv.php%3Fwid%3D39&prev=search|title=Morning Coffee; Syed Zia al-Musawi|work=Albilad Press|accessdate= 11 October 2015}} one of the oldest daily newspapers in Saudi Arabia. He has 1371 articles published at Alwasat News,{{cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ar&u=http://www.alwasatnews.com/writers/writer-556.html&prev=search|title=Syed Zia al-Musawi|work=Alwasat News Archive|accessdate= 11 October 2015}} a more recent Bahraini newspaper.

Published books by al-Musawi (currently only in Arabic) include;

• Apostasy
• Kiss Between a Muslim and a Bomb: Death of Life (2010) {{ISBN|9789990145397}}{{cite book |last= Mūsawī |first= Ḍiyā’ |date= 2010|title= Muslim Kiss; Between Life and Death Bomb|trans-title= |url= https://www.arabicbookshop.net/main/details.asp?id=199-247|language= Arabic|location= al-Baḥrayn|publisher= Farādīs lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzī‘ |isbn=9789990145397}}
• Devils of Heaven (2012) {{ISBN|9789961008300}}
• Politicization of Religion{{cite web | url=https://fikrconferences.org/en/mr-dhiyaa-al-musawi | title=Mr. Dhiyaa Al-Musawi | work=Arab Thought Foundation FIKR Conference | accessdate=4 October 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151005232925/http://fikrconferences.org/en/mr-dhiyaa-al-musawi | archive-date=5 October 2015 | url-status=dead }}

Mr. al-Musawi is a contributor to the Al-Watan Newspaper in Bahrain and is President of the Culture Dialogue Centre.{{cite web | url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ar&u=http://www.shura.bh/Council/MPs/2006MP52/Pages/default.aspx&prev=search | title=Council Member Sayed Dheya Yahya Ali Maki | work=Kingdom of Bahrain Shura Council | accessdate= 4 October 2015}}

Dhiyaa is President of the Bahrain Human Rights Society.

During an interview aired on Abu Dhabi Television on 29 December 2006, al-Musawi expressed his opinion that the socio-economic problems in the Arab / Islamic world that cause hatred and division are due to lack of "reform," stressing that Islam needs to "reshape religious thinking." {{cite web | url=https://naija247news.com/2015/07/terror-getting-rid-of-backward-cholesterol-of-ideology-by-steve-ayorinde/ | title= Terror: Getting Rid of Backward Cholesterol of Ideology | author=Ayorinde, Steve | date= 1 August 2015 | work= Naija 247 News | accessdate= 4 October 2015}}{{cite web | url= https://businessdayonline.com/2015/07/terror-getting-rid-of-backward-cholesterol-of-ideology/ | author= Ayorinde, Steve | title= Terror: Getting Rid of Backward Cholesterol Of Ideology | date= 30 July 2015 | work= Business Day Online | accessdate= 4 October 2015}}

On a live televised debate dated 16 November 2010 (the original in Arabic being found at the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPUK-qQ6lcU Al Jazeera Youtube]), regarding censoring religious programming, Dhiyaa is quoted:

{{quote|"I am not against all religious TV channels, of course. I support the enlightened and tolerant Islam, but I am against those channels that I call "blow-yourself-up-and-go-to-Paradise channels," "blow-yourself-up-and-have-lunch-tomorrow-with-the-Prophet channels." This notion is the exact opposite of what the Prophet Muhammad conveyed."{{cite web | url=https://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/2703.htm| title=Bahraini Intellectual Dhiyaa Al-Musawi Supports Ban on Inciting Islamist TV Channels| author=Middle East Media Research Institute| date=16 November 2010| work= Middle East Media Research Institute| accessdate=6 October 2015}}}}

On 16 November 2015, speaking to the Bahraini parliament about building an enlightened society by eliminating extremism, Mr. al-Moussawi expressed:

{{quote|"... building national enlightened minds is the essential foundation, it can build a society. Without enlightened minds, the construction of the modern state cannot be done without education in spite of all the stock that was thrown on the reform project... we must also install the values of tolerance and moderation, and this will not only be a civil state. We are against secular extremism and religious extremism..."{{cite web | url= https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ar&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alayam.com%2Falayam%2FParliament%2F541250%2F%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86-%D9%8A%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%A8%D8%AA%D8%B6%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86-%C2%AB%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%AF-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%C2%BB-%D8%AA%D8%A3%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%AF-%C2%AB%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B9%D8%A8%D9%8A%C2%BB.html | title= Reliance on National Enlightened Minds is the Essential Foundation for Building Our Society | date= 15 Nov 2015 | work= Alayam Newspaper | accessdate= 19 November 2015}}}}

In April 2016, Al-Musawi is quoted addressing the Bahraini Shura Council in advocating for progress in growing women's rights, asking not to allow the current law, supported by the state Constitution, to be weakened, and questioning the political fear-mongering rhetoric.{{cite news |author= |title=Moussawi: Why make this agreement Babaa to scare people? |url=http://www.alayam.com/alayam/Parliament/574818/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%8A-%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B0%D8%A7-%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%B9%D9%84--%D9%87%D8%B0%D9%87-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%B9%D9%8B%D8%A7-%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%AE%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%81-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%9F.html |newspaper=Alayam |location=Bahrain |date=25 April 2016 |access-date=17 May 2016 }}

Al-Musawi is married to Lady Fatima Ali Ibrahim, who also has political and reformist aspirations.{{cite news |author=Staff Writer |date=4 December 2007 |title=Bahraini Shiite Activist: My Photos Without the Mandate of the Women |url=https://www.alwatanvoice.com/arabic/news/2007/04/12/83443.html |newspaper=Alwatan News |location=Bahrain |access-date=11 October 2015 }}{{cite web | url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ar&u=http://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp%3Faid%3D79061&prev=search | author=Matar, Ahmad Abu | title= Mr. Dhia al-Musawi: And Fight Them with Love! | date= 25 October 2006 | work= Modern Discussion at Ahewar.org | accessdate= 11 October 2015}} They have two sons; Sayed Hussein and Syed Ali.

He likes traveling, playing table tennis, reading, writing and poetic composition. He has a bachelor's degree of Arabic language and a graduate's degree in Islamic jurisprudence from Qom University in Iran, studying under Kazem al-Haeri among other professors.{{cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ar&u=http://www.aljamri.org/Archive/events2/Fadak_April.htm&prev=search|author= Alhaddathein, A.|title=Fadak Magazine to Meet with Mr. Zia al-Musawi|work= Fadak Magazine, archived by Aljamri.org|accessdate= 11 October 2015}}

At age 16 Dhiyaa was inspired to write after reading an issue of the Kuwaiti magazine Al-Arabi. Prior to entering the seminary, he found profound inspiration reading the poetry and political writings of Nizar Qabbani.{{cite interview |url=https://www.albiladpress.com/news_inner.php?nid=78401&cat=4 |last=al-Mosawi |first=Dhiyaa |subject-link=Harry Blackmun |interviewer=Roar Bakali |title=As He Describes the "Enlightenment Lamp" and "Peace Dove" Moussawi Inaugurates "Kiss Between a Muslim and a Bomb: Death of Life." |work=AlBilad Press |date=30 May 2010 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

{{Reflist}}

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20160306202831/https://bhrs.org/ Bahrain Human Rights Society]
• [https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ar&u=http://www.shura.bh/Council/MPs/2006MP52/Pages/default.aspx&prev=search Kingdom of Bahrain Shura Council]
• [https://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1363.htm 29 December 2006 Interview Transcript]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZRuH21JTak Abu Dhabi Interview on Youtube]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUbziweqSgQ Interfaith Dialogue with Shiekh Ibrahim al-Khouli on Youtube]
• [https://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2703.htm Dhiyaa al-Musawi Supports Ban on Inciting Islamist TV Channels]

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