Posted on 07/19/2005 12:39:23 PM PDT by F14 Pilot
President Mohammad Khatami said on Tuesday that Islam advocates freedom, progress and development.
In a meeting with chancellors of universities and heads of centers of science and technology, President Khatami said that Islam advocated by late Imam Khomeini calls for recognizing national interests and international criteria and "saving ourselves from the crisis created by others." "It is not right to welcome crisis with wrong behavior. We are expected to secure our national interests by avoiding crisis," President Khatami said.
"In the past eight years, we have worked hard to say that Islam is not against freedom, progress and development."
"What is being introduced in the name of Islam in other parts of the world is nothing more than violence and backwardness. It is diversion from the true path of Islam. Such methodology has given excuse to those who want to misportray truth as falsehood," President Khatami said.
"We should prove that Islam the late Imam Khomeini advocated is contrary to the Islam of Talibans and al-Qaeda," he said.
President Khatami said, "We should identify the enemy and defend our own values and not to retreat from our criteria or welcome crisis either."
President Khatami said that the enemies make every efforts to obstruct the progress of Iran.
I doubt it, It advocates Poverty, Hatred, Terrorism, Murder and suppression!
And anyone who writes or says otherwise will be killed according to the ancient writings of the Koran, without mercy.
lol
"Islam advocates freedom, progress and development"
WOW. Not in Iran! He must have just finished smoking some really powerful stuff before he said that!
All you have to do is compare where Iran was headed under the Shah, to how it's stagnated for the past 25 yrs.
Islam doesn't advocate freedom or progress any where!
ISLAM -
The very word means slavery.
Actually women in Iran do not wear Burkas...
President Mohammad Khatami, STFU!!!!
Actually, Islam advocates lying to infidels so as to weaken their resolve and conquer them more easily.
agreed
Hey, didn't communism advocate freedom, progress and development? The USSR was a superpower once upon a time...
No Islam is just against Christianity, Jews, women's rights, Western Civilization and anyone who doesn't profess the right version of Islam.
These people are evil, and anyone who thinks we can sit down and make deals with them is crazy.
Why of course it is. That's why it had nothing to do with the Beirut bombing, Hezbollah, or seizing and occupying a foreign embassy and abusing its inhabitants for 444 straight days.
Khatami might recall the fate of a fellow named Sadegh Ghotzbadeh, who also thought he could run with the hounds and succeeded until they tired of him. They accused him of conspiracy, pretty rich in view of the fact that they were all co-conspirators. Tied him to a post and shot him. From the knees up, slowly.
I want to hear again about the nice guy named Khomeini who was boss when it happened.
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