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187118
Wed, 06/08/2011 - 08:10
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Iranian FM Deplores Canadian PM's Insulting Comments against Muslims
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Foreign Ministry condemned the insulting remarks uttered by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper against Muslims, and strongly rejected any relationship between terrorism and divine religions, specially Islam.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast described the comments as spread of hatred against religion, and reiterated that terrorism is an awful and terrible phenomenon and has nothing to do with religion.
"Countries who have appropriate perception of regional developments have excluded this horrifying language from their foreign policy," Mehman-Parast added.
"Regional public opinion particularly Afghans had expected the Canadian top official to speak of cases of numerous tortures of innocent people in Afghanistan by Canadian troops rather than insulting Muslims' beliefs in regional countries."
He expressed hope the cases of tortures would be considered since Canada claims that it is a human rights advocate, and added, "We hope that the Canadian new parliament will pursue the issue seriously as the previous one did to achieve desirable results."
In relevant remarks in April, Deputy Ambassador of Iran to the United Nations Eshaq Ale-Habib lashed out at the growing trend of insults to Islam in the West, and called on the United Nations to take proper measures to confront the spread of Islamophobia in the western societies.
Ale-Habib called on the UN and its Committee on Information to take practical steps to promote "religious tolerance" and to counter the growing Islamophobic trend in the West, and to stop the desecration of Islam.
Ale-Habib also condemned the recent act of burning Islam's holy book, the Quran, by an extremist US pastor, and said the incident runs counter to the UN's efforts to promote "religious tolerance and mutual respect between religions and cultures."
He further slammed Western media for their bias against developing countries as well as their monopolistic control over global information and communications technology.
"This is unfortunate that, by using their modern and exclusive communications technology, some developed countries are constantly distorting the realities and fabricating events… specially with regard to developing countries," Ale-Habib told the UN's Committee on Information.
"Developing countries have been hindered by the unfair… duplicitous and exclusive approach of the (western) media," he added.
The Iranian diplomat urged the international community to promote "fair" media coverage of world events, and called for essential steps to promote equal access to information and communications technology.
"We encourage the UN's information department to play an effective role in establishing a new order of information and global communications based on the free and balanced flow of information," Ale-Habib noted.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast described the comments as spread of hatred against religion, and reiterated that terrorism is an awful and terrible phenomenon and has nothing to do with religion.
"Countries who have appropriate perception of regional developments have excluded this horrifying language from their foreign policy," Mehman-Parast added.
"Regional public opinion particularly Afghans had expected the Canadian top official to speak of cases of numerous tortures of innocent people in Afghanistan by Canadian troops rather than insulting Muslims' beliefs in regional countries."
He expressed hope the cases of tortures would be considered since Canada claims that it is a human rights advocate, and added, "We hope that the Canadian new parliament will pursue the issue seriously as the previous one did to achieve desirable results."
In relevant remarks in April, Deputy Ambassador of Iran to the United Nations Eshaq Ale-Habib lashed out at the growing trend of insults to Islam in the West, and called on the United Nations to take proper measures to confront the spread of Islamophobia in the western societies.
Ale-Habib called on the UN and its Committee on Information to take practical steps to promote "religious tolerance" and to counter the growing Islamophobic trend in the West, and to stop the desecration of Islam.
Ale-Habib also condemned the recent act of burning Islam's holy book, the Quran, by an extremist US pastor, and said the incident runs counter to the UN's efforts to promote "religious tolerance and mutual respect between religions and cultures."
He further slammed Western media for their bias against developing countries as well as their monopolistic control over global information and communications technology.
"This is unfortunate that, by using their modern and exclusive communications technology, some developed countries are constantly distorting the realities and fabricating events… specially with regard to developing countries," Ale-Habib told the UN's Committee on Information.
"Developing countries have been hindered by the unfair… duplicitous and exclusive approach of the (western) media," he added.
The Iranian diplomat urged the international community to promote "fair" media coverage of world events, and called for essential steps to promote equal access to information and communications technology.
"We encourage the UN's information department to play an effective role in establishing a new order of information and global communications based on the free and balanced flow of information," Ale-Habib noted.
