Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei called on youth in the western countries to help pave the way for a correct interaction between the world and the Muslims.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei called on youth in the western countries to help pave the way for a correct interaction between the world and the Muslims following the terrorist attacks which rocked the French capital earlier this month.
In an open letter released on Sunday, Imam Khamenei urged the western youths to “lay the foundations for a correct and honorable interaction with the Islamic world based on correct understanding, deep insight and lessons learned from horrible experiences.”
This is the second time the Leader addresses the Western youth in an open letter. In January, Ayatollah Khamenei had sent another one to the youth in Europe and North America, urging them to study about Islam and to obtain firsthand information about it before accepting their governments’ propaganda.
“The bitter events brought about by blind terrorism in France have once again, moved me to speak to you young people. For me, it is unfortunate that such incidents would have to create the framework for a conversation, however the truth is that if painful matters do not create the grounds for finding solutions and mutual consultation, then the damage caused will be multiplied,” the Leader said, referring to Paris attacks which killed 130 people in November 13.
Muslims across the globe are feeling “abhorred and revolted by the perpetrators and those responsible for these calamities.”
“The pain of any human being anywhere in the world causes sorrow for a fellow human being. The sight of a child losing his life in the presence of his loved ones, a mother whose joy for her family turns into mourning, a husband who is rushing the lifeless body of his spouse to some place and the spectator who does not know whether he will be seeing the final scene of life - these are scenes that rouse the emotions and feelings of any human being,” said the letter.
Meanwhile, Imam Khamenei said Washington’s support for the Israeli regime’s “state terrorism” is another case in point.
“The oppressed people of Palestine have experienced the worst kind of terrorism for the last sixty years,” added the Leader.
“If the people of Europe have now taken refuge in their homes for a few days and refrain from being present in busy places- it is decades that a Palestinian family is not secure even in its own home from the Zionist regime’s death and destruction machinery,” noted Ayatollah Khamenei.
Imam Khamenei also referred to military campaigns against Muslim countries in recent years with “countless victims” as another example of the “contradictory logic of the West.”
His eminence said the countries that have been attacked have seen numerous deaths and loss of “economic and industrial infrastructure.”
The Leader said the Muslim world has suffered “pain” due to the “hypocrisy and duplicity” of the aggressors.
Imam Khamenei expressed hope that the Western youth would be able to “change this [Western] mentality corrupted by duplicity, a mentality whose highest skill is hiding long-term goals and adorning malevolent objectives.”
The Leader said as long as “double-standards” continue to dominate the Western policies by categorizing “bad and good terrorism,” the roots of violence should not be sought anywhere else in the world.
“Unfortunately, these roots have taken hold in the depths of western political culture over the course of many years and they have caused a soft and silent invasion,” said the Leader. “I consider the imposition of Western culture upon other peoples and the trivialization of independent cultures as a form of silent violence and extreme harmfulness.”
