Official Blasts West’s Muted Response to Carnage
TEHRAN (Dispatches) – An Iranian official Monday deplored the international community’s muted response to a recent terrorist attack on Muslims in New Zealand, saying the West is pushing for the promotion of Islamophobia.
In an address to a meeting on the threat of terrorism held here, Secretary of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution Saeed Reza Ameli said the attack was a massacre that resulted from what Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has described as institutionalized secularism in the West.
He said it was the West that spawned the Daesh terrorist group, adding notorious terrorists have now emerged in the U.S. and Europe.
Ameli also denounced the international community’s refusal to condemn the terrorist attack in New Zealand, saying the West’s Islamophobia campaign has historical and economic roots.
"Islamophobia has its roots in the European and American economy, as they created Islamophobia for the sake of the arms trade market so that they could sell arms to a country like Saudi Arabia,” the cleric added.
A gunman killed 50 people and wounded more than 40 during Friday prayers at two New Zealand mosques in the country’s worst ever mass shooting.
The assailant livestreamed the attack on one mosque in the city of Christchurch on Facebook, mirroring the carnage played out in video games, after publishing a "manifesto” in which he denounced immigrants, calling them "invaders”.
In an address to a meeting on the threat of terrorism held here, Secretary of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution Saeed Reza Ameli said the attack was a massacre that resulted from what Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has described as institutionalized secularism in the West.
He said it was the West that spawned the Daesh terrorist group, adding notorious terrorists have now emerged in the U.S. and Europe.
Ameli also denounced the international community’s refusal to condemn the terrorist attack in New Zealand, saying the West’s Islamophobia campaign has historical and economic roots.
"Islamophobia has its roots in the European and American economy, as they created Islamophobia for the sake of the arms trade market so that they could sell arms to a country like Saudi Arabia,” the cleric added.
A gunman killed 50 people and wounded more than 40 during Friday prayers at two New Zealand mosques in the country’s worst ever mass shooting.
The assailant livestreamed the attack on one mosque in the city of Christchurch on Facebook, mirroring the carnage played out in video games, after publishing a "manifesto” in which he denounced immigrants, calling them "invaders”.