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12
Jun 2016
Sheikh Farrokh's email to WFTV

EMAIL MESSAGE, BY SHEIKH SEKALESHFAR, SENT TO NEWS CHANNEL REPORTER (ABOUT 2 MONTHS AGO) WHO STARTED THE STORY – (NO REPLY HAS BEEN GIVEN TO DATE) On the 29th of March, Eyewitness News, on WFTV channel 9, released a story airing extracts of an academic presentation I had given at the University of Michigan in 2013. They have grossly misrepresented the facts and published a story that is far from the truth. Simply stated, it is libel and defamation. Further aggravating this incredible misreporting is WFTV’s violation of AP standards and practices,......

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11
Apr 2016
Spirituality in the seminaries

In response to a request by directors of the Seminary Schools, in Iran, to receive money for building and purchasing numerous properties for the seminary cause, the late Imam Khomeini said: ‘…my stance – and I have uttered it repeatedly on previous occasions – is that I am against these extravagances; these are harmful to the seminaries. The criterion is Islam and education, which are in opposition to such excesses…’ Elsewhere he has categorically declared that however much money and buildings increase in this regard, studies and spirituality decline proportionally. After paying......

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