Hojjatoleslam Ahmad Moballeghi who was receiving a group of religious clerics and scholars from India and Mauritania on Saturday, said that the incipient nature of the problem threatened the Islamic Umma with a critical situation; “extremism has been working its way through communities of Muslims and it has now merged as a ‘modern ignorance;’ historically, extremism has been a bane of Islamic world, which should be soon addressed, otherwise the Islamic world will definitely be hit by a sort of ‘modern ignorance,’” he urged. “Extremism has given birth to large-scale codes of behavior which impose themselves to world of Islam, creating deep social, intellectual, and moral rifts among the Umma; this new sort of ‘ignorance’ has peculiar features, among them two features stand out as predominant: extremism and blind dogmatism,” he added.
“Extremism represents ignorance, and now it strikes the whole Umma with a wave of ignorance; in limited scope, extremism would pose no threat to society; however, if quite a contagion, it would pose grave challenges to communities in larger scale, which unfortunately it is the case for Islamic Umma,” Moballeghi told the meeting.
“Today, we see extremist groups, with dogmatism and tribal provincialism easily slaughter people, thus making the public grow a hatred toward the religion; the problem should be immediately addressed and tackled, if we do not want to see the institution of the religion weakened, and to prevent any further damage to the Islamic Umma,” he demanded.
“The modern ignorance is more obnoxious and more despicable that of the time of heathendom in comparison, since the former hinges upon the religion, assuming a cloak of modesty it claims have roots in religion; in a cover provided by religion, the ignorance spreads immorality; our scholars should identify the root causes of this great viral disease to effectively curb its growth,” emphasized Moballeghi.
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