Tue Feb 24, 2015 1:6
Iranian Journalist: Leader's Message Exposing Pseudo-Islamic Groups as Enemies of Islam
TEHRAN
(FNA)- Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei's
highly-important message to the European youth has paved the way for a
proper understanding of the genuine Islam in the West, showing that the
pseudo-Islamic groups are the biggest enemies of Islam, a senior Iranian
journalist said.
"Today
the biggest enemies of Islam are pseudo-Islamic groups …," Reza Jalali
said, addressing a conference titled 'Studying the Supreme Leader's
Message to the Western Youth from the Perspective of International
Relations' in Tehran on Monday.
He underlined that the Supreme Leader's message to
the western youth is meant to persuade them to find out about the real
Islam through Holy Quran.
Iran's Supreme Leader sent a highly important
message to the European youth in January to stress the Islam that the
West is trying to portray is a forged concept and not the reality,
demanding the younger generation in the West to do research to get
firsthand information before accepting their states' propaganda.
"I don’t address your politicians and statesmen
either in this writing because I believe that they have consciously
separated the route of politics from the path of righteousness and
truth," Ayatollah Khamenei said in his message.
"I would like to talk to you about Islam,
particularly the image that is presented to you as Islam. Many attempts
have been made over the past two decades, almost since the
disintegration of the Soviet Union, to place this great religion in the
seat of a horrifying enemy. The provocation of a feeling of horror and
hatred and its utilization has unfortunately a long record in the
political history of the West."
"Here, I don’t want to deal with the different
phobias with which the Western nations have thus far been
indoctrinated", he added.
"A cursory review of recent critical studies of
history would bring home to you the fact that the Western governments’
insincere and hypocritical treatment of other nations and cultures has
been censured in new historiographies."
The letter was welcomed by many western elites, thinkers and religious figures.
Earlier this month, Rev. John Bryson Chane,
American Bishop, said future of the younger generation lies in following
religious principles, and the Iranian Leader's message to the youth was
a severe blow to the negative impacts of modernity and secularism in
the West.
"The future of the world rests squarely in the
hands, hearts, minds and souls of the youth of the world. The great
challenge facing the younger generation is more than just studying Islam
as important as that is. As religious leaders from both occidental and
oriental theological traditions, we all must work harder together in
encouraging the younger generation of this world to understanding the
negative impact that modernity and secularism have on our collective
cultures in the 21st century," Rev. John Bryson Chane said in an
interview with FNA.
Rev. Chane also attached great importance to
preparing the ground for a more peaceful coexistence between Islam and
Christianity, calling on followers of all monotheistic faiths to line up
against extremism and condemn violence in any part of the world.
"Islam and Christianity in particular share common
values that condemn violence and extremism. Christianity and Islam can
be partners in spreading a great story. There are in the world today 1.6
billion Muslims and 2 billion Christians. Think of the strength in
those numbers when scholars and religious leaders from these two great
monotheistic faiths stand together and decry violence as an anathema of
their faith traditions," he said.
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