Ahlul Bayt News Agency - Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei warned of the US and Britain's different plots to create rift among Muslims, and said Washington doesn’t differentiate between the Shiites and Sunnis in implementing its anti-Islam plots.
Britain has a long experience of sowing discord between the Shiites and Sunnis and using the advantages of such differences to its own benefit, Ayatollah Khamenei said, addressing members of the headquarters of the congress to commemorate the Muslim Kurd martyrs in a meeting held in Tehran on May 4.
He also referred to the recent bill proposed by the US Congress that mandates arming the Iraqi Kurds and Sunni tribesmen directly, and said, "Are they really interested in the Sunnis?"
"They (the US and Britain) are against anything which has a sign of Islam and they don’t differentiate between the Shiites and Sunnis and issues like religion and ethnicity are just a pretext for them to sow discord," Ayatollah Khamenei warned.
In relevant remarks late in 2013, Ayatollah Khamenei urged the Muslim Ummah (community) to increase vigilance as enemies of Islam are hatching increasing plots to stir sectarian strife among them.
“A major problem of the Muslim World today is the imposed, intentional and wicked problem of kindling differences among the Muslim Ummah and (Islam’s) religious sects,” Ayatollah Khamenei said addressing Hajj officials in Tehran.
The Supreme Leader said that the global arrogance and colonialist powers were fully experienced in igniting sectarian strife among Muslims, adding, “Hajj’s capacities should be used for confronting (and defusing) these plots under the present conditions.”
“The confrontation (that the enemies are trying spark) among the religious sects will not be limited to the Shiite-Sunni confrontation and if the enemies of Islam can institutionalize these confrontations, they will put on their agenda sparking internal differences inside the different Shiite sects and Sunni sects,” Ayatollah Khamenei said.
source : abna
