TEHRAN Substitute Friday prayers leader of Tehran Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani said here on Friday that the world of Islam has become increasingly aware of the plots hatched by the global arrogance due to the fact that Muslim nations are getting closer to unity. Ayatollah Kashani, who was speaking to large groups of worshipers at Tehran University campus, said that Muslim states have become increasingly aware and Saudi ulima have proposed extension of the hands of brotherhood and moving in unity's direction.

Also the Guardian Council spokesman, Kashani said there are lots of ignorant individuals and mercenaries but a large group of Muslim ummah and ulima have reached a consensus that the incessant whippings of the global arrogance on the body of Islam have awaked Muslims, necessitating Muslim ummahs' unity and solidarity in the Muslim communities around the world. Outlining bestial atrocities of the Zionists, Kashani pointed out that the Jews have been committing the crimes against Muslims since the first century after the advent of Islam. The Friday prayer leader thanked Almighty Allah for having graced the world with the auspicious presence of infallible Household (as) of the Holy Prophet (S) who thwarted and foiled all the plots of the Zionists. Quoting French Muslim writer and philosopher Roger Garaudy as pointing to distortion of the Bible and Torah in his book, Ayatollah Kashani said that Judaism and Zionism are two completely separate political institutions, which are not within the original framework of the Holy Book of Torah and that the Holy Book has been distorted through centuries and that a lot of superstitious and fabricated beliefs had been devised.

The ayatollah said the modern world of Islam is surrounded by heretical environment and that's why the Muslim community needs to have a unity of word. Those who are engaged in fomenting disunity are the Zionists and the dwellers of the White House who are themselves Zionists, he added. The substitute Friday prayer leader added that the Hajj season with millions of Muslim pilgrims congregating to perform their annual hajj and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) which is being chaired by the Islamic Republic of Iran are the two important factors which are contributing towards the unity of the Muslim ummah.

Considering the incessant conspiracies against Iran, Ayatollah Kashani called on Iranian people to thank Almighty Allah for the blessings of Islamic Revolution, follow orders of the paramount Leader of Islamic Revolution and supreme religious jurisprudent and avoid any discord among themselves. (IRNA)