Tehran, YJC. The Iranian president has hailed a letter by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei for revealing the West’s inappropriate representation of Islam,
In Isfahan as part of his provincial
tours, President Hassan Rouhani attended a meeting with clerics, and seminaries
scholars where he said one of the West's accusations was to introduce Islam as
a religion of violence.
The truth however is that the West is
itself the source of violence, he asserted.
The Iranian president said"Today, we
have to see extremist groups burn alive or behead people and film them in the
name of religion, which urges us to show the true Islam to the world.”
Leader’s letter to the youth showed the
world that true face of Islam is different from what the West falsely imposes
to the world as interpretations of Islam, Rouhani noted.
He stressed that his government has heralded
fight against violence and extremism in the UN. "when I decided to propose the
idea of a ‘world free of violence’, some people told me not to raise the issue,
however, I put my trust in God and sought help to raise the flag of
violence-free world.”
Rouhani further said that even those
who rejected the idea, were silent when the idea was proposed to the United
Nations General Assembly.
He emphasized that we should
demonstrate to the world that religion is the governing power and is far
distant from violence.