Mohammad Khatami

Mohammad Khatami

Former Iranian president

His Excellency Mohammad Khatami served two terms as Iran’s president from 1997 to 2005. He also founded the Tehran-based International Institute for Dialogue among Civilizations and Cultures. The “On Faith” panelist was born into a religious family and studied theology in Iran’s holy city of Qom. He also has a Master’s Degree in education from Tehran University. After Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution Khatami served as chief editor of “Keyhan Daily” newspaper, and was elected a member of parliament. He served as Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance from 1982 to 1992 and later as President of the High Council for Cultural Revolution. Khatami was elected fifth President of the Islamic Republic in 1997, gaining almost 70 percent of the votes cast. He was re-elected to a second term in 2001. Besides Persian, Khatami speaks Arabic, English and German and has written many books. In 1998, he called for a dialogue among the world’s civilizations and cultures, prompting U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to declare 2001 the U.N. Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations. Khatami presently participates in the High-Level Group of the United Nations’ Alliance of Civilizations. The Group comprises 20 international leaders called together by Annan and the prime ministers of Spain and Turkey to counter the deterioration of relations between societies and nations. The Alliance seeks to establish a relationship of mutual respect between civilizations and rejects religious and political extremism. Close.

Mohammad Khatami

Former Iranian president

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Occupation Must End for Order to be Restored

The presence of foreign occupants, not only does not foster security, but is in and of itself one of the causes of insecurity.

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In the koran it speaks that muslims are to rule the world, and it does so in more than one place. In addition the koran says that muslims are to forgive only muslims of all things they do wrong, just because they are muslims.

Think about that one, and when you think that there may be a moderate muslim in the world.

It might be countered that the bible also has words to express these ideals, however much of christianity doest adhere to the whole bible, or many of the sons and daughters of christians would be stoned to death, much like many such cases in the middleeast. christians also dont seem to be telling their young sons to walk into mine fields to clear them, as one limb is blown away they are told to continue to the next mine to achieve a great reward. Who suffers the most pain, the child, the parent, the sibling, or those that read about such behaviors and are sickened to the edge's of sanity itself in some cases.

islam, is to submit, for the world to submit.

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Bill Lang:

Fred, you lost me. Where are you coming from?

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Bill Lang:
You talk like you have freedom here.
How many times and where you have heard that the sole reason the US went to Iraq was for the oil and establishing permanent military presence there ?
It is shallow at the least to think you have freedom and free press here let alone to criticize others for the lack of it.

Bill Lang:

The real mistake was in disbanding the Iraqi army and not arming Iranian insurgents to push for freedom in your own country! Iranians are the ones that keep that insurgents armed and stirred up. Iran is the one that wants instability that they can use to bloody America and dominate Iraq and the oil. Iran is the one that promotes Islamic extremism and has an extremist goverment that enslaves it's own people.

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