Rereading and interpreting the ideas of leading Muslim thinkers
Fariba Shayegan
Abstract
There are a variety of definitions about social security and threats indicating a lack of consensus on this issue, and not considering the impact of social conditions of different countries. Thus, although in a scientific study considering other viewpoints can be useful, in order to be practical, we ...
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There are a variety of definitions about social security and threats indicating a lack of consensus on this issue, and not considering the impact of social conditions of different countries. Thus, although in a scientific study considering other viewpoints can be useful, in order to be practical, we should indigenously note indigenous conditions and domestic scholar’s comments. Based on this idea, this study investigated one of the Iranian Muslim scholars’ viewpoint namely Ayatollah Khamenei about social security threats which are conceived to be highly influenced by local conditions. In this study a qualitative method and content analysis has been used to refer to all statements of the Supreme Leader since the beginning of his inauguration (1989) till 2011 and the threats were extracted and classified. Then a number of 36 country’s military and security experts confirmed these conceptual threats. The results revealed that social security threats in Iran from the viewpoint of the Supreme Leader includes creating intrigue and turmoil, threatening and intimidation, enemy propaganda, creating doubt in the beliefs of youth, creating religious division, interference of the enemies in the internal affairs of the country, ethical and financial corruption, ethnic division, breaking the law, insecurity of social environment, drug abuse and addiction in society and, finally, youth unemployment.
