Hujjat al-Islam Sakhavati described the Supreme Leader’s second letter addressed to Western youth as the international part of the Statement on the Second Phase of the Islamic Revolution and said, “The enemies are trying to make Islam passive through Islamophobia.” RNA – Speaking at a ceremony marking the beginning of the new academic year at al-Mustafa International University in the auditorium of the university’s Imam Khomeyni Specialized University campus in Qom, Hujjat al-Islam Dr. Nasrollah Sakhavati said two letters were written at the height of evil and Islamophobia in the West which were addressed to the youth of the Western countries and said, “In these letters, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution [Ayatollah Khamenei] emphasized on two aggressive and reckless issues in the media.”
The head of al-Mustafa Institute for Political Science Research noted that good work has been done by the deputy director of education of al-Mustafa International University [Hujjat al-Islam Sayyed Hamid Jazayeri] in regard to the second letter of the Supreme Leader to the youth of the West and said, “Workshops have been formed on the positive and negative aspects of this letter.”
Hujjat al-Islam Sakhavati described the commonalities between Western civilization and Islam as features of the second letter of the Supreme Leader and added, “Challenging Western civilization, tackling institutionalized terrorism in the West and confronting security and insecurity in the West are the negative aspects of the letter.”
His Eminence added, “The Islamic Revolution is not a purely human revolution with a history of consumption but rather it was a divine movement that must advance through the stages of the building of society and civilization.”
He referred to the second letter of the Supreme Leader to the youth of the West as an international part of the Statement on the Second Phase of the Islamic Revolution and stated, “The enemies were trying to make Islam passive through Islamophobia but in the second letter of the Supreme Leader to the youth in Western countries they were made passive.”
On January 21, 2015, Ayatollah Khamenei published an open online letter entitled “To the Youth in Europe and North America” on his official website, khamenei.ir. On November 29, 2015 he published a second letter entitled, “To the Youth in Western Countries.”
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