Hawzah News Agency-In a message of congratulation on the occasion of Journalism Day to Hawzah News Agency, Ayatollah Arafi asked all the revolutionary media to sincerely engage in confronting the hegemonic system of Media networks and their plots.
The text of the message is as follows:
Greetings
On this special occasion, I'd like to commemorate the martyred journalist Mahmoud Saremi and all the other journalists who sacrificed their lives during the Iran-Iraq war along with the martyrs of the Islamic Resistance Front; I profoundly salute them all.
I hereby congratulate the occasion of Journalism Day to all the beloved journalists of that respected News Agency; I'd also like to extend my heartiest congratulations to all the media workers and journalists who are working in cultural, scientific and religious media sectors in Iran as well as the whole world. I appreciate all the services and endeavors carried out by journalists and media activists in Hawzah News and other Islamic Media and extend my best wishes to them.
In a time when the giant hegemonic media networks have shadowed other global media and their information flow like a dreadful octopus, the main duty of the Islamic and revolutionary Media is to face this hegemonic system of Media networks in an idealistic and moral way, they must make a serious effort in order to establish a new standard for honesty, trusteeship and resistance in journalism.
Cultural and scientific media, especially those involved with the Islamic seminary are obliged to base their foundations on philosophical, jurisprudential and Islamic media's moralities; they must set a very high example of a new style in journalism, a new method for fair and right-seeking criticism.
It is expected that the Islamic Seminary's news agencies and generally any other religious news organization serve as the interface among figures, organizations and the younger population of the Islamic Seminary in order to promote the religious knowledge and awareness in Iran as well as other parts of the world; they should attempt to help the Islamic Seminary to spread its ideology, to organize its scientific and noetic movements and by doing this, they open a new path for developing the Islamic seminary and to promote its teachings. It must be noted that all the above must serve to raise the Islamic awareness and improve its civilization.
Once again, I'd like to extend my deepest congratulations to the messengers of awareness and insight, all the members of the media and pray to God almighty for their success and prosperity in life.
Alireza Arafi
Head of the Islamic Seminary
Qum