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Following the recent #terrorist_attack on Muslims in #NewZealand, a review of a portion of Ayatollah Khamenei’s letter to the young people in Europe and America written in 2015 is offered: ‌‌
Many attempts have been made over the past two decades… 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…
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Your researchers and historians are deeply ashamed of the bloodsheds wrought in the name of religion between the Catholics and Protestants or in the name of nationality and ethnicity during the First and Second World Wars.
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…I would like you to ask your intellectuals as to why the public conscience in the West awakens and comes to its senses after a delay of several decades or centuries. Why should the revision of collective conscience apply to the distant past and not to the current problems? …
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… I would like you to ask yourself why the old policy of spreading “phobia” and hatred has targeted #Islam and #Muslims with an unprecedented intensity. Why does the power structure in the world want Islamic thought to be marginalized and remain latent? What concepts and values in Islam disturb the programs of the super powers and what interests are safeguarded in the shadow of distorting the image of Islam? …
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