Imam Khomeini through his speeches and messages used to insist on tolerance and recommended the followers of various divine religions to become united under the banner of monotheism in order to confront cruel and colonial powers’ vicious agenda.
Imam also used to say that anti-Islam sentiments and propaganda was being spread systematically by some media outlets or lobbying groups. He also used to denounce any type of sectarianism among Muslims or any strife among followers of divine religions.
Sahifeh ye- Imam, a collection of Imam’s speeches and messages show that Imam had been a great champion of unity among human societies and followers of divine religions.
We see necessary to attract attention of our readers towards a most recent fatal shooting of a mosque imam and his associate in the US city of New York on Saturday. The incident presents a patteren of Islamophobia.
The pair was walking home from afternoon prayers at a mosque in the New York City, when a gunman opened fire, shooting both in the head.
Imam Alala Uddin Akongi was pronounced dead at the scene. Akongi assistant, 64-year-old Thara Uddin, was critically wounded and succumbed to his injuries in hospital.
Imam Alala Uddin Akongi has been a revered religious leader, who came to the city from Bangladesh about two years ago,
Muslim protesters have called the killings a hate crime, and demanded justice. The demonstrators have blamed the murder on the anti-Muslim rhetoric in the US perpetuated by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
The shooting comes amid a climate of growing anti-Muslim sentiment and Islamophobia