TEHRAN A group called "Ansar-e Velayat" has recently raided a bookshop in Isfahan and confiscated some 700 books, magazines and compact disks, which they believed were anti-Islamic.
A member of the group told the student news agency, ISNA, on Tuesday that the books were written by secular writers and such Western philosophers as Jean-Paul Sartre.
The member said, "We seized the books as they were the source of corruption, anti-religion and deviant." Unfortunately these sort of unwanted events frequently happen in respect of cinemas, cultural centers and certain type of ceremonies in the country.
The groups, responsible for such unwanted events should bear in mind that waging violent campaign against what they believe are wrong will bring about nothing, but chaos and tension in the society.
If any individual prescribes his own law and institute action against what he opposes, instability will emerge in the country.
Groups, with different cultural and political viewpoints, should maintain law and order and leave such cases with the officials in charge to dealt with through legal ways.
Even if the attackers believed that the government should not grant publication licence to such books, they should have gone to law with evidences, and called on the respective officials to revoke the licence of publications and withdraw the books from the shops.
The common people are not authorize to enforce the law, but they should practice the law, an appointed system which is set to remove social corruption and punish those involved.
The government should take serious measures against such violent acts and confront the culprits as part of attempt to establish the rule of law and ensure the country's security and stability.