By: Ayatollah Mohsen Araki, Secretary General of World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought
Since colonial powers plagued the world of Islam, they started series of measures to undermine Islamic unity and preventing Muslim solidarity based on regional, ethnical or tribal differences.
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Another endeavor to undermine Muslim unity include racial segregation and ethnicism. Since colonial powers plagued the world of Islam, they started series of measures to undermine Islamic unity and preventing Muslim solidarity based on regional, ethnical or tribal differences. Basically intentions to dominate Muslims should focus on dividing the Islamic community though hostile endeavors have all been foiled due to insight and gallantry of Muslims besides their religious leaders.
Whenever the world of Islam has found the opportunity to revive its solidarity and honor, hostile efforts to create religious and ethnical tensions surge; therefore, with the appearance of racial voices, particularly in the decades following post-revolution era, we have witnessed the outbreak of an 8-year war under the title of “Magus Persians” (Zoroastrian Persians) which let out racial and sectarian cries to invade Islamic Iran.
Clearly merely by Iraqi dictatorship has not been behind the plan and mottos for this war rather it was an international and regional plot which hired all available military might as well as intelligence and media capabilities in the region and across the globe. However, the world has been witness to failure of the plot and topple of Iraqi dictatorship.
This ripple of sectarianism and racism had happened once more when Lebanese Hezbollah beat Zionist forces. Condoleezza Rice immediately headed for regional countries to prepare them for sectarian war. Though today, following failure of the American project across Muslim world and following the Islamic Awakening, al- Aqsa Mosque Intifadha and Palestinian March of Return, the US has once again returned to mobilize the regional people under the title of ‘Arab-Sunni NATO’ and pretext of confrontation with development of Iran.
This thought is not a maiden one since it has previously been proposed by former US presidents for several times. What encouraged Donald Trump to propose that again was his illusion of victory in the Islamic-American meeting held in Riyadh in 2017.
It would be better if this thought does not receive welcome by other countries because the US is not concerned over interests of other nations and regional and that domestic intervention of the US will be seriously rejected by these nations since it would guarantee nothing but interests of Washington and Tel Aviv.
An Egyptian journalist has rightly defined,” Ordinary people in the Arab world are aware that to force some Arab countries for a massive military and religious confrontation with Iran will only materialize US objectives and not demands of the Arab nations, among them an increase in American weaponry, Arab states will face huge loans and humiliation of their rulers plus astonishing disintegration of the Arab nations while strategic capabilities of Israel in confrontation with Arab and Islamic countries will increase. These are the apparent objectives of the US-Zionist coalition, clearly with no relation to interests of the Arab countries. If all Arab nations understand these issues, national leaders would not be concerned since they would know protecting the sovereignty and honor of their countries as their major mission.
Such projects highlight necessity of proximity among Islamic denominations as to confront the most dangerous plots in the world, which aim destruction of the whole region, is the main responsibility of Islamic proximity. We hope that all orthodox people understand the importance of the issue in a bid to rise for aiding the objective of proximity and confront intrigues for division.
