Posted on 08/30/2005 4:22:08 AM PDT by nuconvert
Iran pays attention to centers of other religions
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
LONDON, August 30 (IranMania) - Head of Armenia's State Agency of Monument Preservation Artyom Gregorian said that no other country rivals Iran in paying so much attention to holy centers of various religions, including that of the Christian faith Speaking at a meeting with the governor of the provincial town of Khoy, Mohammad-Amin Rezazadeh, he referred to Iran as a country making effort to preserve its religious centers, IRNA reported.
He lauded the fact that so much attention is paid to other faiths by Islam.
Currently visiting Iran at the head of an Armenian delegation, Gregorian noted, "Prior to advent of Christianity and Islam, the people of Iran and Armenia lived together. Given the close relations between the two religions, sowing the seed of discord between them is out of question."
For his part, Rezazadeh pointed to the amicable bilateral relationship and hoped that it will continue in the future.
"We do our best to preserve churches and holy centers of the Christian faith, similar to mosques and our own historical monuments.
"Special focus has been placed in recent years on reconstruction and repair of ancient relics to attract tourists," he added.
During its stay in West Azarbaijan province in northwestern Iran, the 16-member Armenian delegation toured a few of the provincial churches including Qara-Kelisa and the mausoleum of Sadreddin in Siah-Cheshmeh.
The visiting delegation mainly aims to exchange the latest technical developments in preserving and safeguarding archaic monuments and their restoration.
Yeah, but blowing them up is the kind of attention we don't need.
""We do our best to preserve churches and holy centers of the Christian faith, similar to mosques and our own historical monuments. "Special focus has been placed in recent years on reconstruction and repair of ancient relics to attract tourists," he added."
BS.
Sivand Dam will soon bury Pasargad and other ancient remains . Cyrus' tomb will be submerged, as will several palaces around it and ancient buildings buried under the ground.
http://www.farstourism.org/pasargad/pasargad.htm
What about the Jewish sites?
You may be very surprised to read.....
"It is one of the many paradoxes of the Islamic Republic of Iran that this most virulent anti-Israeli country supports by far the largest Jewish population of any Muslim country. " "While Jewish communities in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Egypt, Morocco and Algeria have all but vanished, Iran is home to 25,000 - some here say 35,000 - Jews". "Tehran has 11 functioning synagogues, many of them with Hebrew schools. It has two kosher restaurants, and a Jewish hospital, an old-age home and a cemetery. There is a Jewish representative in the Iranian parliament. There is a Jewish library with 20,000 titles..."
http://www.sephardicstudies.org/iran.html
(2)Sharia promotes and condones from the highest clerical levels the murder of innocent people deemed infidels and/or a danger to islam (e.g. Salaman Rushdie).
(3) Therefore islam is intolerant and a danger to all non-muslims.
"(2)Sharia promotes and condones from the highest clerical levels the murder of innocent people deemed infidels and/or a danger to islam"
Sharia is (predominantly) carried out upon muslims
But Christianity isn't a series of monuments.
And what has that to do with whether it is civilized or not?....."predominantly" is not "totally" as this absurd code of fifth century law has been used to kill innocent non-muslims.
Stoning people to death? Is this civilized? I don't think so.
Muslims are an intollerant scourge to civilized people on this planet. There is absolutely no excuse for the barbaric rules of conduct inherent to islam and detailed for all to see within sharia..
They are very tough on the Ba'hai faith.
Yes, they are.
Dittos. Ever read "Lord of Darkness" by Robert Silverberg? It's about a tribe that's the scourge of Africa. They destroy everything man made and everyone to "purify" the land. Takes place 400 years ago.
"civilized"? Absolutely not.
Just pointing out, that it's muslims who are mostly the victims. As it's muslims who are the majority of victims in Iraq and muslims who were the victims of the Taliban, etc.
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