Former Afghan president hails holding of Islamic awakening conference

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Former Afghan president Burhaneddin Rabbani hailed organizing the First International Conference on Islamic Awakening in Iran, saying that it will produce excellent results. The leader of the Afghan Islamic Society Party added that the event was an innovative move. The move has brought together a large number of Islamic religious and political figures under such sensitive conditions and this is important, he said. Rabbani also said that Tehran-Kabul ties have always been brotherly and this will continue. The two-day conference on Islamic awakening started its work here on Saturday, with the speech of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution and with participation of the heads of the three branches of power in the Islamic Republic and more than 600 Muslim thinkers and scholars from over 80 countries. The Islamic awakening is a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occurring in the Muslim world. Since 18 December 2010, there have been revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt; a civil war in Libya resulting in the fall of its regime; civil uprisings in Bahrain and Yemen; major protests in the occupied Palestine against the Zionist regime, and also in Algeria, Jordan, Morocco and Oman, as well as minor protests in Kuwait, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia and Western Sahara. Clashes at the borders of the occupied Palestine with occupying forces of the Zionist regime in May 2011 were also inspired by the regional Islamic awakening./129