Posted on 08/14/2002 3:30:44 PM PDT by knighthawk
TEHRAN -- Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that Western liberal democracy must be blamed for two world wars, proliferation of nuclear and chemical weapons and for bringing to existence such groups as Taleban in the international community.
In a meeting with a group of Iranian cultural attaches abroad, who are now on a homecoming visit, the Leader said that the cultural attaches abroad are expected to expound the logic of the Islamic Revolution to world peoples, IRNA reported.
The Leader said that cultural attaches should communicate with the people of their host countries to convey the logic of the Islamic Revolution to them in a bid to attract the hearts of the audience to Islam.
Ayatollah Khamenei said that propagation of Islam will help the cultural attaches explain the logic of the Islamic Revolution.
Referring to the attempts under way to separate religion from politics, the Leader said that world powers are making every effort to separate religion from politics and social life, but to no avail, as the late Imam Khomeini put forward the idea that noble Islam can effectively be applied to social life.
The Islamic Revolution is the outcome of the late Imam's tenet that Islam is applicable to every aspect of life, the Leader said.
"The Islamic Revolution has set a model vis-a-vis Western liberal democracy and Marxism," the Leader said.
On Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation, the Leader said that Palestinian youth, inspired by the Islamic Revolution of Iran, have tilted the power balance in the Middle East, adding that the enemy understood the magnitude of the Islamic Revolution's influence and has resorted to a psychological warfare to contain this process.
"We should publicize our idea of religious democracy against Western liberal democracy, because liberal democracy has so far created two world wars and engaged in proliferation of nuclear and chemical arms and bringing into existence groups like Taleban in the international community," Ayatollah Khamenei said.
The Leader said that literature of U.S. President George W.
Bush is very similar to that of (Adolf) Hitler, adding that the Western powers have become so arrogant that the president of a country advocating human rights and freedom speaks with the world peoples with the language of (Adolf) Hitler.
Prior to the Leader's speech, Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ahmad Masjed Jamei and head of the Islamic Culture and Communication Organization Hojjatoleslam Mohammad Araqi presented reports on the activities of 59 Iranian cultural missions abroad.
The Leader also on Wednesday called on university students to keep vigil since the enemy has targeted Iran's collegiate circles with a political and cultural inroad.
"The hands of the enemy are both clandestinely and openly at work to initially target universities with their plots. This requires all the sympathizers, especially beloved students, to keep vigil and indicate a heightened sensitivity," he said in a message to the annual gathering of students in the northern city of Babol.
"The signs of cultural and political plots are before the eyes of the public. The faithful and aware youth can nip the plots in the bud and settle the dust when it is raised," Ayatollah Khamenei added.
"Members of the Islamic Students Associations must amalgamate their political efforts with self-purification and build a solid buttress against the enemy's influence," he said in another part of the message to the mainstream Iranian collegiate institution.
"The flag of justice and Islamic freedom which has been raised up today by the sacred regime of the Islamic Republic before the eyes of the world is opposed by spiteful enemies.
"And the younger (Iranian) generation as well as students must not ignore this arena of confrontation and bellicosity even for a moment," the Leader added.
Meanwhile, in a message to the nation the Leader voiced sorrow over the death of some Iranian nationals in recent floods that raged through northeastern Province of Golestan. The Leader said, "He was grieved to hear that once again the province had fallen victim to natural disasters, and expressed condolences to the families of the deceased."
He also called on the concerned officials to expedite relief aid dispatch to the affected areas, and also see to it that the recurrence of floods in the province is decreased.
Flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed at least 35 people since Monday evening in northern Golestan Province near the Caspian Sea, said IRNA.
About 300 people were killed during flash floods which struck parts of the province on August 10 last year.
Funny they recently banned a opposition party.
And developed a civilization with values more advanced than the Stone Age that these people live in.
Volume XXIII in The World's Thinnest Books library, alongside The Ethics of Bill Clinton and The Charisma of Al Gore.
Any sorrow expressed for the Iranian students and protestors recently shot by the mullahs' thugs? Didn't think so.
BTW, word is that many of the riot control troops were speaking Arabic. Whatsa matter Ayatollah, can't trust your own troops anymore? Maybe they would rather shoot you than their own sons and daughters? Anything else you wanted to add while you're circling the drain?
called on university students to keep vigil since the enemy has targeted Iran's collegiate circles with a political and cultural inroad.
Ironically, a number of years ago the Farsi-speaking goodwife somehow wound up in an ongoing e-mail conversation with a university student in Iran. I don't remember how they connected -- never met (he's young enough to be our son), no mutual friends or acquaintances, etc. But I remember we were concerned at how politically free he was with his speech; my wife was always cautious in her replies. He graduated, moved on and, from our perspective, disappeared.
But I wonder: with a pronouncement like this today, are the mullahs watching more carefully?
(Then again, I think of political comments e-mailed from an acquaintance about the same age whom I met in Beijing. Maybe I misunderstand the degree of repression going on -- or maybe it's just that, being older and having seen more, I don't trust such governments.)
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