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Anti-Azerbaijan events continue in Tabriz mosques

31 October 2011 09:58 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Ramil Mammadli â€“ APA. A series of anti-Azerbaijan events held according to the Iranian authoritiesâ€™ instruction are continued in the mosques of Tabirz.

Eastern Azerbaijani Front of Islamic Revolutionary Cultural Studies started series of events on the topic of â€œStudying Islamism in the Republic of Azerbaijanâ€. The first event entitled â€œKhomeini supporters in the Republic of Azerbaijanâ€ was held at the Ayatollah Taligani Mosque of Tabriz. Expert Mehdi Nalbandi spoke about the role of Islam and Shiâ€™itism in the history of Azerbaijan and focused attention on the role of Islamic revolution and Iranian former religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini in strengthening of Shiâ€™itism in Azerbaijan.

Director of â€œAranâ€ International Cultural and Research Institute, which supports territorial claims against the Republic of Azerbaijan, and editor of â€œAranâ€ journal Hasan Gulu delivered keynote speech, which contained ideas threatening the statehood and independence of Azerbaijan. Gulu accused Azerbaijan of cooperation with the United States and Israel, and development of Vahhabism and Zionism. He claimed that anti-Islam and anti-Iran propaganda was accelerated in Azerbaijan: â€œWhen will the Islamic revival start in the Republic of Azerbaijan? Why the Republic of Azerbaijan, which is the nearest Islamic country to us, couldnâ€™t derive benefit from this revival? The reason of unsettlement of such questions is the lack of necessary propaganda among the people and socio-political activists in Azerbaijan. During the two centuries anti-Iranian and anti-Islamic programs were established and realized in this country. The geographical names were changed during the Soviet period in this country, Qurâ€™an alphabet was replaced by Russian and Latin alphabet, the language was deformed, anti-Iranian and anti-Islamic films were shot, the poems insulting Iran and Islam were written, the history was distorted, scientists and the devout were killed during the communist period, as well as reading of Qurâ€™an was banned. Azerbaijan continues such programs in the period of independence and some of its examples can be seen in the analyses of anti-Iranian media of the Republic of Azerbaijanâ€.

Gulu noted that the culture of these people was not completely separated from the Iranian culture. He protested the arrest of leaders of the Azerbaijanâ€™s Islamic Party and proposed to Iranian population, including Tabriz residents, to give moral support to the Azerbaijani Islamists.