Our Shiite scholars need to be active in cyberspace

Hojjatolislam Akhtari, who was speaking at the unveiling ceremony of the Ahlul Bayt World Assembly's new digital products, pointed to the activities of the Assembly in recent years and said, "Now more than 350 million people around the world are benefiting from the teachings of the Ahlul Bayt (AS) and this is our biggest activity in the Ahlul Bayt World Assembly."

According to Abna, referring to the Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA), he also said, "Lunching an accurate news agency for the Shiite Muslims around the world was a very important thing for us and now by ABNA we could inform people about what is really happen in Yemen, Bahrain and other countries."

"In Mina tragedy we were among the first news agencies that covered the news, so we could bring more visitors to our website," he stressed.

The Secretary General of the Ahlul Bayt World Assembly also pointed to the writing and translating of more than 1700 books noting, "For promoting teachings of the Ahlul Bayt (AS) we translate our books to more than 55 languages and now we are going to increase that to 60 languages."

Akhtari also referred to the University of Ahlul Bayt as the Assembly's important activity adding, "Till now more than three thousand Shiite scholars have graduated from the university in different countries and now they have reached a proper place among Muslim nations."

"Now there is a good opportunity for promoting Shi'ism in Africa, Latin America and South America; in this case we need to produce applications and to be active in cyberspace," he underlined.

At the end of his speech Akhtari also said, "Shia logic is the logic of wisdom; so we are ready to debate with the leaders of other religions in this field."

/SR