Iranian cyclist couple chanting Islamic Awakening slogan arrive in Malaysia

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Iranian cyclist couple Omid Najafabadipour and Fatemeh Dehshiri, commemorating Prophet Muhammad’s grandeur and that of entire monotheist faiths arrived in Malaysian capital city Wednesday after cycling over 8K kilometers through 10 other countries.The young Iranian couple who are from Kerman, the capital city of Iran’s central Kerman Province, said they decided to take the Islamic world cycling tour with that slogan to ease their hearts of the insults against the Glorious Qur’an in the United States last year, against the Prophet of Love and Kindness (P) in Europe a few years ago, and to pay respect to the entire monotheist faiths’ holy books and grand prophets (P).The Iranian cyclist couple has arrived in Malaysia after passing through Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Thailand, and has decided to fly to Saudi Arabia from here and perform a Hajj pilgrimage at the end of their sports-spiritual tour.Pointing to the role of sports in carrying messages to the other nation, the couple told  that the existing world mass media might be incapable of carrying through the entire news about a nation to the other world nations, but the various sports’ disciplines can play a more effective role in this respect.They emphasized that the media coverage in various countries, arranging for photo exhibitions, particularly featuring photographs of the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Imam Khomeini (P) in different Islamic world capitals, presence and lectures at various schools and universities, distribution of books, planting Iran Peace Trees in eleven Islamic countries, and… all aimed at carrying through their message of Islamic Awakening, which is possibility of compromise between grass-root democracy and grand Islam to those countries’ peoples and the entire world nations gives depth and meaning to their otherwise merely sports move.The young Kermani couple said that their most bitter memories during their tour was that of struggling with the tough nature in snow-clad heights of Pamir on the boarder of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan and their sweetest memory of their one night stay by the side of a hospitable family in Kyrgyzstan. /129