Enemies Seeking to Distort Image of Islam via Wahhabism: Ali Akbar Velayati

Secretary-General of the World Assembly of Islamic Awakening Ali Akbar Velayati said the enemies of Islam are trying to portray an “improper” and “dark” image of Islam resorting to Wahhabism, an ideology which promotes violence and ignorance.

“The enemies of Islam are utilizing all their capabilities to keep Muslim countries in a state of chaos, secession, weakness, dissention and war so that they could maintain control on Muslims and plunder their wealth and impose economic, social, scientific and cultural backwardness on Muslims,” Velayati said on Wednesday addressing an international conference on ways to counter Takfiri and extremist ideologies in the Muslim world underway in the Iranian capital, Tehran.

He added, “The enemies of Islam are trying to portray an improper and dark image of Islam in accordance with Wahhabism which in fact is seeking to revive the pre-Islamic ignorance and promote violence and commit shameful murders such as beheading children, burning and imprisoning men and raping women”,

“Such satanic measures by the Americans, Zionists and Saudis have created such hate in the world that the perpetrators of these shameful crimes are shifting the blame on each other.”