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Iran’s President: Iran and Indonesia can present “true and moderate Islam”

Mar 15, 2015 5:38 pm By Robert Spencer

Rouhani ShahabOn November 20, 2013, Iran’s Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei, said: “The Zionist regime is a regime whose pillars are extremely shaky and is doomed to collapse.” Israelis, he declared, “should not be called humans.”

Rouhani himself has said: “The Imam [the Ayatollah Khomeini] set long-term goals for the day the occupying Zionist regime is no longer in the region. The formula for this move must be discussed in the government.”

Ayatollah Mohammed Ali Movahedi-Kermani, Tehran’s interim Friday Imam, has said: “The issue of Palestine is an Islamic issue. The Islamic world must come together to destroy the false Israeli regime….If this happens, nothing will be left of Israel.”
Moderate!

“Rouhani says Iran, Indonesia can introduce ‘true and moderate’ Islam,” Tehran Times, March 15, 2015:

TEHRAN – President Hassan Rouhani has said that Iran and Indonesia can present a “true and moderate” Islam which stands against violence and terrorism.

He made the remarks during a meeting with Alwi Shahab, the Indonesian president’s special envoy, in Tehran on Sunday.

The president also said, “Iran and Indonesia have paid a high cost in fighting against terrorism and extremism.”

“Iran and Indonesia as two Islamic and Asian countries that are members to international bodies such as the Non-Aligned Movement and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation can play an effective role in advancing regional and international issues with reliance on their commonalities,” Rouhani stated.

He also called for comprehensive ties between the two countries, saying Iran welcomes expansion of economic ties with Indonesia.

For his part, Alwi Shahab said Indonesia is ready to expand relations with Iran.

Shahab also highlighted the importance of presenting a “moderate” Islam which is far from extremism.

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  1. Marty says

    Mar 15, 2015 at 6:36 pm

    Actually, it is islamic Jew haters who should not be referred to as human. They have no concept of what the term implies or aspires to. That remain seventh century savages and genocidal sociopaths locked into a twisted dearh cult ideology.

  2. Martin Vink says

    Mar 15, 2015 at 6:50 pm

    Remember how Hitler tricked Russia into a peace pact before he attacked them? Could Shia Iran be doing the same with Sunni Indonesia?

    Iran is expanding quickly, encircling Israel and Saudi Arabia by controlling Lebanon and Yemen respectively. They are fighting Sunni Iraq and want to dominate the Islamic world. Indonesians are probably not as dumb as Stalin though.

    • Anthony says

      Mar 16, 2015 at 1:51 am

      @Martin, the best to know how Indonesian thinks, you should live there. Islam was coming there rather peacefully, so not conquered by the Arabs, so Islam was pretty much mingled with local’s customs and traditions, so you have different kind of Islam here. What is practiced here can be considered heresy in Arab, like practicing rituals at certain tombs or sacred places. So I can say that the Indonesian doesn’t hold this moderate view of Islam, but rather tolerant view of Islam. They can have relationship with almost anybody, maybe even with Israel. Majority is Sunny and Shiite is minority, even sometime being oppressed, and as you can see they can have perfect relationship with Iran..

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 16, 2015 at 6:21 pm

        Uh…right. Indonesia oppresses non-Muslim minorities, and Shari’ah law has been imposed in Aceh. How “moderate” is that?

  3. Don McKellar says

    Mar 15, 2015 at 7:12 pm

    As all those rabid dog genocidal statements are completely in line with the Islamic texts, the Koran and the hadiths, they have no problem viewing themselves as “true and moderate Islam”

  4. abad says

    Mar 15, 2015 at 8:39 pm

    I’ll take it that most of us here know about the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran..moderate Islam my butt

  5. Georg says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 12:14 am

    We agree Iran and Grand Wizard Khomeini represent true and moderate Islam– that’s precisely what frightens us.

    It doesn’t embarass Iranians to have their leader call an entire race of people subhuman? Even when the allies were fighting Nazis, I don’t think there was any political or even popular insistence that Germans were subhuman. The only leader who viewed a group of people as subhuman was that one guy who shamed our species, and now there’s another.

  6. mortimer says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 1:10 am

    When I hear them say ‘moderate’ or ‘fighting terrorism’ all I hear is ‘TOTALITARIAN’ and ‘THEOCRATIC FASCISM’.

  7. Phil says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 2:41 am

    “True and moderate” Islam, is that what we’re being offered?

    From Iran, the nation with the HIGHEST PER CAPITA EXECUTION RATE on the planet? And levels of opiate addiction that exceed anything seen since the Opium Wars?

    From Indonesia, which still has to own up to the slaughter in Timor L’Este ( don’t even start me on the Anti-communist purge – which so conveniently targeted the Chinese – for which read non-muslim – population)?

    Gee, I think I’ll pass on the offer.

  8. Lia Wissing says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 5:12 am

    Hmmm … this particular wolf is trying to wear 2 sets of sheeps’ clothing, and they keep slipping.

  9. ApolloSpeaks says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 7:00 am

    THE SAMSON OPTION

    Iran’s Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei, said: “The Zionist regime is a regime whose pillars are extremely shaky and is doomed to collapse.”

    This sounds like Samson bringing down the temple of the Philistines upon himself. If Israel should be faced with collapse it will exerise the Samson Option and destroy Iran and the entire Moslem Middle East in a nuclear holocaust.

    http://www.apollospeaks.com

  10. Spot On says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 8:13 am

    I suppose that B.O. is “all in” with Rouhani and his “moderate” Jew haters. All this while they keep building their nukes.

  11. Paul says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 10:14 am

    Is it possible to have “moderate” stoning to death, “moderate”
    death for apostasy and “moderate” lynching of gay people?
    I’m not sure how that could work. One for the ‘scholars’ to decide,
    who obviously know best.

  12. Bezelel says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 1:30 pm

    ( the Non-Aligned Movement and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation can play an effective role in advancing regional and international issues with reliance on their commonalities,” Rouhani stated.)

    advancing regional and international issues with reliance on their commonalities,

    As far as I’m concerned that smells like “Fundamental Change” or islamization or jihad.

  13. gravenimage says

    Mar 16, 2015 at 6:30 pm

    Iran’s President: Iran and Indonesia can present “true and moderate Islam”
    ……………………………

    Of course! What could possibly be more “moderate” than hanging gay people, stoning women to death, and threatening to “wipe Israel off the map”? sarc/off

  14. mick aitken says

    Mar 17, 2015 at 10:03 am

    Don’t forget what the Indo’s are doing to the West Papuan–genocide

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