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Iran seminaries shut in protest at Pope remarks
TEHRAN: Religious seminary schools across Iran were closed on Sunday in
protest at remarks by Pope Benedict XVI that linked Islam to violence, state
media said.
"All the seminary schools are closed to show their disgust at the outrageous
and anti-Islamic comments made by the pope," state television said.
It said that the heads of the main seminary schools in Iran's clerical
epicentre of Qom "asked all scholars and theologians to gather for the
protest which will be held (in seminaries) across the nation at around 10:00
am (0630 GMT)."
In place of normal lectures, students were expected to listen to sermons by
theologians damning the pope's speech and then collectively ask the pope for
an unequivocal apology.
The state-run IRNA agency said the order for the schools to be shut had come
from the Grand Ayatollahs in Qom, the highest ranking of all Shiite clerics.
In a speech in Germany, the pope spoke of a link between Islam and jihad, or
"holy war", and quoted a 14th-century Byzantine emperor who said innovations
introduced by the Prophet Mohammed were "evil and inhuman".
The pope on Saturday apologised for causing any offence to Muslims but did
not retract his remarks, arguing they had been misinterpreted.
Several Grand Ayatollahs in Qom issued separate statements on Saturday
urging the pope to apologise and increase his knowledge of Islam, Iranian
media said.
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