TEHRAN — Lebanon’s most senior Shia cleric, Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlullah, believes that the bullying behavior of the arrogant powers is the main stumbling block for establishing dialogue between the Islamic world and the West, ISNA news agency reported on Sunday.

“The logic of arrogant powers, which enjoy political, economic, and military powers, is the same logic of using force against weak countries” in order to control their fate, the top cleric noted.
“These countries consider Arab, Islamic, and Third World states as their own colonies.”
At the present time it is all Muslims’ obligation to be united against the conspiracies of the global arrogance against the Islamic world’s culture, economy, politics, and security, Fadlullah told ISNA.
The grand ayatollah also lamented extremist views by some persons who claim to be the true defenders of Islam, saying a “lack of creative mind is the root cause of the existing radical prejudices.”
Elsewhere in his remarks he said some Islamic states within the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) are not helping seriously to resolve the problems faced by the Islamic world.
“Most of these countries are under the U.S. domination and are moving in line with (the U.S.) strategic interests and even some of these countries are friend to Israel and some others consider it as an enemy,” he noted.