In the name of God, the Beneficent the Merciful
 

To the Youth in Europe and North America

The recent events in France and similar ones in some other Western countries have convinced me todirectly talk to you about them. I am addressing you, [the youth], not because I overlook your parents rather it is because the future of your nations and countries will be in your hands; and also I find that thesense of quest for truth is more vigorous and attentive in your hearts I don’t address your politicians and statesmen either in this writing because I believe that they have consciously separated the route of politics from the path of righteousness and truth. I would like to talk to you about Islam, particularly the image that is presented to you as Islam. Many attempts have been made over the past two decades, almost since the disintegration of the Soviet Union to place this great religion in the seat of a horrifying enemy. The provocation of a feeling of horror and hatred and its utilization has unfortunately a long record in the political history of the West, Here, I don’t want to deal with the different phobias with which the Western nations have thus far been ...
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