al-Shirazi and his student, controversial Kuwaiti cleric, Sheikh Yasser al-Habib, were accused of provoking terror attacks against Sunni mosques, as a reaction to the al-Baqi' incident and the bombings (2006 and 2007) of the Askariayn shrine. However, al-Habib denied this, claiming: "this was a call for the mosques–satanic temples–that are proven to be dens of criminal Wahabis and terrorists; the ones that call for the slaughter of the Shia. As for the ordinary Sunni mosques, it is strictly forbidden to be destroyed, even if it is a Bakri [Sunni] mosque."