TEHRAN (Iran News) –Criticizing Westerners’ fake liberal democracy, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said that today, the West is vulnerable more than any era in the past.
Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks in a meeting with a group of seminary students, religious scholars, and preachers at Imam Khomeini’s Hosseinieh (RA) on Wednesday.
“We need propagation, we need preaching, we also need research (in seminaries),” the Leader said, noting that the seminaries should prioritize religious propagation and then pursue research and preaching.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Ayatollah Khamenei touched upon the confrontation between the Islamic front and the fake Liberal democrat front.
“One front is the front of the Islamic system. The other front is a lying front that calls itself liberal democracy while it is neither a liberal nor a democrat,” Leader noted.
They can’t name themselves a liberal, a libertarian, or a free thinker when they’ve colonized a country like India for many years and taken away the Indian nations’ assets, he added.
“The French committed crimes and killed people in Algeria for more than a hundred years. Maybe tens of thousands were killed over a few years. They are not Democrats, they are lying because they impose reigns in some places. They are not in favor of democracy, they are 100% against democracy that does not serve them,” the Leader stressed.
Today, they are putting a nation like the poor nation of Ukraine in trouble in order to make the American arms manufacturing companies rich; the Ukrainians would fight, and they would be killed for the sale of U.S. weapons, he further said.
The Leader of the Islamic Revolution also slammed the United States’ obvious theft of Syrian oil.
He also stressed that “If the importance of propagation is neglected in the Islamic seminaries, we will undergo cultural degeneration.
Ayatollah Khamenei said: “The capacity of propagation in this country is so massive and dense that even if we work several times as much as we do, I don’t think this capacity will be filled.
He said: “We need propagation, we need preaching, we also need research. Today, the common view in seminaries is that preaching is in the second place, the first place is other things, scientific degrees, and some other matters; the second level is propagation and we must pass this view; propagation is ranked first.”
He went on to say: Today, the level of public awareness of young and all walks of life cannot be compared with the past. Almost all my life, my missionary life of around sixty years, was mostly spent with young people. That day, the children’s thoughts were good, and the young people were thoughtful, but it was not comparable to today. The level of thinking has increased.”
The Leader stated: In addition to the fact that the level of thinking of our youth, our teenagers, and our audience has increased, there is also a problem, and that is that in this chaotic market of different voices in the virtual space and the plurality of media that exists, one voice is isolated and that voice is the transmission of generational and family knowledge. Fathers and mothers taught many things to their children. In this chaos of media pluralism, this voice has weakened.”
He emphasized: “Propagation is not just removing doubts, it is not a defensive position. This work is necessary. But that’s not all. The enemy has intellectual bases, he should be undermined. It is necessary to promote offensively.”
Ayatollah Khamenei stated: It is necessary to know the scene, that is, you must know whose side you are on when you are faced with a lot of doubts in the minds of young people, whose side are we on?
