Post by uz on Oct 9, 2011 15:03:28 GMT -5
Iranian, Croatian scholars call for enhanced religious relations
Tehran, Oct 9, IRNA -- Iranian and Croatian scholars in a meeting on Sunday celled for development of religious relations between the two countries.
The period of oppressive regimes has already finished and the Muslim World awaits a bright future, head of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought, Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Taskhiri said in a meeting with a delegation of senior scholars from Croatia.
He recalled cooperation of Iranian and Croatian nations to protect Muslims during the Bosnia war though the Muslims fell victims to cruelty of the war criminals.
“Although Islamic revolution in Iran was a revolution against international arrogance both in the western and the eastern bloc but it has been shown as a local revolution by hostile propaganda machines,” Taskhiri calling for Muslim unity around the world said.
He said that the current revolutions in the Muslim world have been inspired by the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran.
Aziz Hasanovic, deputy head of the Islamic Community in Croatia, for his part, welcomed the development of relations between Iran and Croatia in various political, economic, cultural and religious fields.
“Iran is pioneer in supporting Muslims around the world,” the head of Croatian delegation said.
Referring to the ongoing Islamophobia in Europe, the Croatian scholar said that the real picture of Islam must be presented to the non-Muslim Europeans.
Islamophobia describes prejudice against, hatred or irrational fear of Islam or Muslims. The term dates back to the late 1980s or early 1990s but came into common usage after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United State. The term has been manipulated by the US and its NATO allies to justify their raids to the Muslim world under the pretext of fighting extremism and terrorism.
The Bosnian War was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between April 1992 and December 1995. The war came about in the wake of the breakup of former Yugoslavia.
Following the Slovenian and Croatian secessions from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1991, the multiethnic Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was inhabited by mainly Muslim Bosniaks (44 percent), Orthodox Serbs (31 percent) and Catholic Croats (17 percent), passed a referendum for independence on 29 February 1992.
After declaration of independence, Bosnian Serb forces, supported by the Serbian government of Slobodan Milo?evi? and the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) attacked the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to secure Serbian territory and war soon broke out across Bosnia, accompanied by the ethnic cleansing of the Bosniak population, especially in Eastern Bosnia.
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Tehran, Oct 9, IRNA -- Iranian and Croatian scholars in a meeting on Sunday celled for development of religious relations between the two countries.
The period of oppressive regimes has already finished and the Muslim World awaits a bright future, head of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought, Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Taskhiri said in a meeting with a delegation of senior scholars from Croatia.
He recalled cooperation of Iranian and Croatian nations to protect Muslims during the Bosnia war though the Muslims fell victims to cruelty of the war criminals.
“Although Islamic revolution in Iran was a revolution against international arrogance both in the western and the eastern bloc but it has been shown as a local revolution by hostile propaganda machines,” Taskhiri calling for Muslim unity around the world said.
He said that the current revolutions in the Muslim world have been inspired by the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran.
Aziz Hasanovic, deputy head of the Islamic Community in Croatia, for his part, welcomed the development of relations between Iran and Croatia in various political, economic, cultural and religious fields.
“Iran is pioneer in supporting Muslims around the world,” the head of Croatian delegation said.
Referring to the ongoing Islamophobia in Europe, the Croatian scholar said that the real picture of Islam must be presented to the non-Muslim Europeans.
Islamophobia describes prejudice against, hatred or irrational fear of Islam or Muslims. The term dates back to the late 1980s or early 1990s but came into common usage after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United State. The term has been manipulated by the US and its NATO allies to justify their raids to the Muslim world under the pretext of fighting extremism and terrorism.
The Bosnian War was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between April 1992 and December 1995. The war came about in the wake of the breakup of former Yugoslavia.
Following the Slovenian and Croatian secessions from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1991, the multiethnic Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was inhabited by mainly Muslim Bosniaks (44 percent), Orthodox Serbs (31 percent) and Catholic Croats (17 percent), passed a referendum for independence on 29 February 1992.
After declaration of independence, Bosnian Serb forces, supported by the Serbian government of Slobodan Milo?evi? and the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) attacked the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to secure Serbian territory and war soon broke out across Bosnia, accompanied by the ethnic cleansing of the Bosniak population, especially in Eastern Bosnia.
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