[caption id="attachment_147051" align="alignright" width="166"] Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (AFP)[/caption]
Iran�s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has urged Western youth to examine Islam for themselves rather than swallow prejudiced views, in a message posted on his Twitter account.
�The recent events in France and similar ones in some other Western countries have convinced me to directly talk to you about them,� he wrote in reference to the January 7-9 jihadist attacks in Paris that left 17 dead.

�Many attempts have been made over the past two decades, almost since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, to place this great religion in the seat of a horrifying enemy,� Khamenei said of Islam.

�Don�t allow them to hypocritically introduce their own recruited terrorists as representatives of Islam,� he said.

�Receive knowledge of Islam from its primary and original sources,� said the supreme guide of the Islamic republic.

Khamenei called for the youth of Europe and United States to �study and research the incentives behind this widespread tarnishing of the image of Islam.�

Iran denounced the attack on the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo but has also condemned as �insulting� and �provocative� its publication last week of a new cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed.

By AFP

 

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