Judiciary chief cautions against Western principles of human rights

TEHRAN (FNA) - Muslim scholars and theorists should strive to defuse the western norms and principles of human rights exported to the Islamic nations and display the potentials of Islam's views and principles of human rights, Iranian Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani said Sunday.

""The field of Islamic laws and rights has not been safe from the westerners' presumptions and views,"" Larijani said at a meeting with high-ranking judiciary officials here in Tehran.

""We should try to explain the principles of Islamic laws, which are based on respect for man's high status and exalted position and a monotheistic look, to those who are ignorant of the grandeur and richness of the Islamic law,"" he added.

Referring to the claims raised by a number of western lawyers that the Islamic rules of punishment are violent, Larijani underlined that Iran believes the issue of nemesis discussed in Islam is not a show of violence at all, rather it is a protection for man's life and means attention to the rights of human beings.

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