Hawzah News Agency-Abu Muslim Khawlani, an official of the Indonesian ministry for Religious affairs, attended a meeting with a member of Qom's society for seminary teachers, Najm al Din Tabbasi. During the meeting, the Indonesian official asserted, "As an Indonesian I'm really proud to see that despite the harsh sanctions imposed on Iran for 37 years, Iranians are the only Muslim nation that are standing on their own feet,"

He further added, "We really hope that Indonesia could also see such development, we also hope that unity among Shia and Sunni Muslims strengthens so that different ethnicities and religions would live in peaceful harmony,"

"Discord between Shia and Sunni Muslims only serves the purposes of Islam's enemies," he added.

Khawlani went on to point out Wahhabis' attempts to distort religious books in Indonesia, "Recently Wahhabis have been trying to revise as many as 32 main sources of Indonesia's Sunni seminary schools in order to eliminate and replace the parts which do not serve their benefits,"

Elsewhere in his remarks, the Indonesian religious expert stated that Wahhabis' attempts are not always in accordance with their pre-determined objectives adding, "Recently, as many as 9,000 educated Indonesians have embarked on a comprehensive research on Wahhabism and its doctrine, as a result of their study, they eventually converted to Shiism; Now we're witnessing a peaceful coexistence between Shia and Sunni Muslims in that very region,"

In the end Abu Muslim Khawlani expressed his purpose of trip to Iran as becoming familiar with Iran's regulations regarding religious tolerance toward Sunni Muslims as well as other religious minorities.

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