Hojjatoleslam Ali Karimian who was addressing the opening ceremony of the 8th General Assembly of the Union on Sunday in Tehran which was held in IRIB Conference Hall, said that “now, the Islamic world faces Takfirist groups, terrorism, violence, and extremism which are mainly backed and fostered by conspiracies of imperialism front in line with promoting of an islamophobic mentality; the horrible events in the region are the direct impact of attempts to delineate a violent and extreme face of Islam, and the propaganda industry of the west and Zionist regime along with the majority of the regional media and Islamic countries oil-born dollars are behind it,” he emphasized.
“These all have served a petty and cruel project to distort the true face of Islam, and providing of a superficial and shallow reading of the Islamic scriptures and of the Holy Quran, and spreading of and normalizing of immorality and a non-Islamic culture, which is for the larger part, an imported culture, and a precursor to crimes perpetrated on daily basis in the Islamic territories,” he told the meeting, illustrating his case with examples of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and elsewhere in Islamic world, which he believed, were victims of the great conspiracy; “today, in Syria and Yemen, the crimes by Al-Saud family and its dollars have been used to kill women, children, destroy these countries’ infrastructures, schools, cemeteries, and historical monuments; Saudi’s, in doing this, rival the Zionists which are their parallel in occupied Palestine,” he asserted.
“All these are devised to engage Islamic world in an internecine strife which would deplete economic and social assets and resources and create a crisis of identity within Islamic sphere; Islam is the religion of love, peace, equality, spirituality, symbiosis, and friendship; the Prophet of Islam (AS) is the blessing to the whole world according to Holy Quran’s very clear text,” Karimian continued, “the only way out of this trap and conspiracy, is to display the peaceful face of the Islam and the Prophet; the 8th General Assembly of the Union starts the session with the theme of '‘The Prophet of Blessing, the Resistance Media Mission,’ to mobilize the Islamic media in a well-orchestrated attempt to clear the dust of extremism and violence from the face of Islam,” he said.