Iran envoy calls for tolerance

RELIGION|IRAN|TOLERANCE

KAMPALA - The new Iran ambassador to Uganda Sayed Hosseini Muhammad has called for tolerance and peaceful co-existence among members of the different religious denominations. 

Muhammad made the remarks at the function in which he was officially unveiled by the embassy's cultural consul Dr Muhammad Reza Ghezesofia in Kololo on Monday (December 14, 2020). 

At the same function, the embassy mourned the murder of the Iranian scientists Mohsen Fakhrizadeth. 

"Fakhrizadeth was not only a scientist but also a professor at different universities, researcher and a parent that the world will always miss," Muhammad-Hosseini said. 

Fakhrizadeth was a brigadier general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, an academic physicist and a senior official in the nuclear program of Iran. 

Hosseini castigated countries that claim to be democratic yet they are barbaric. 

"As elites we have to always read between the lines for the increasing assassination of Muslim leaders and scholars all over the world and we pray to Allah to bring justice in this world," said Dr Tajudeen Sanni, a lecturer from Kampala International University in Kampala. 

Sanni noted that the continued assassination of Muslim scholars wakes other nations to come closer to Iran as an island of knowledge. 

Professor Adam Ssebyala from Al-Mustafa Islamic College in Uganda said the killing of Fakhrizadeth has encouraged scientists to search for knowledge. 

"We would want to reassure ourselves but also give the enemies of humanity a message of desperation that the Iranians prophesied as the ‘peak of knowledge' by prophet Muhammad and who consequently produced Sunni Islam such great scholars like Bukhari and others who founded Islamic knowledge committed to memory and hence no verge of getting lost," Ssebyala noted. 

In his message read by Haji Abdul-Aziz Tamuzadde, Supreme Mufti Sheikh Siliman Kasule Ndirangwa sympathised with Iran over Fakhrizadeth death and prayed to God to give a deserving punishment to his killers.