The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution referred to the wave of takfirism and terrorism which has afflicted Europe as well and which will create a worse situation in the future, adding: “Seemingly, the birthplace of this phenomenon is the Arab region, but in fact, the U.S. and some European governments are the main factors in causing these incidents.”
Ayatollah Khamenei stated that the military coalition of western governments against terrorism is not real, saying: “Although it is possible that these coalitions go to war against terrorism in some cases, but they are not after uprooting real terrorism neither in Iraq nor in Syria and their bad and malevolent policies are increasing humanity’s problems on a daily basis.”
His Eminence mentioned that the cure for this situation is to gain an understanding of the factors that lead to the emergence of these problems and to show willpower for resolving them. He added: “The humiliation of Muslim youth in some rich and powerful European countries prepares the ground for them to join deviant terrorists such as DAESH. Upon their return to Europe, these humiliated youth engage in causing explosions and massacring people.”
It is correct that today terrorism is our common worry. However, it is necessary for you to know that the insecurity and strain that you experienced during the recent events, differ from the pain that the people of Iraq, Yemen, Syria and Afghanistan have been experiencing for many years, in two significant ways. First, the Islamic world has been the victim of terror and brutality to a larger extent territorially, to greater amount quantitatively and for a longer period in terms of time. Second, that unfortunately this violence has been supported by certain great powers through various methods and effective means.
Today, there are very few people who are uninformed about the role of the United States of America in creating, nurturing and arming al-Qaeda, the Taliban and their inauspicious successors. Besides this direct support, the overt and well-known supporters of takfiri terrorism- despite having the most backward political systems- are standing arrayed as allies of the west while the most pioneering, brightest and most dynamic democrats in the region are suppressed mercilessly. The prejudiced response of the west to the awakening movement in the Islamic world is an illustrative example of the contradictory western policies.
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