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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
The cover of the latest issue of Charlie Hebdo magazine hit rock bottom with shamelessness, big eyes, vulgarity and disrespect for human rights and dignity with this daring provocative experience. We are witnessing all this thanks to the encouraging actions of President Macron, who has followed in the footsteps of the neo-fascist way of conducting politics and rhetoric. ” This is what he affirms in the position of the Chief Mufti of Bulgaria on the occasion of the latest issue of the French magazine.
This is the second statement from the mufti’s office, which yesterday condemned the statements of the French head of state. The tone of today’s statement is sharper after a cartoon appeared on the cover of the magazine with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sitting in a chair with a beer in hand as he lifted the skirt of a veiled woman and revealed her buttocks. The cartoon is titled: “Erdogan, it’s a lot of fun in private.” The Erdogan administration responded by commenting that the cartoon was “the product of a xenophobic, Islamophobic and intolerant cultural environment that the French leadership clearly wants for their country.” Read more about the cover of the latest issue of “Charlie Hebdo” here.
The Chief Mufti of Muslims in Bulgaria writes today: “We strongly condemn this satanic magazine, which antagonizes our world and the pure messenger Muhammad”, believing that “this is a usurpation of religion, its sacred things and human dignity.”
According to the religious leadership, the cartoons were “a disgusting attempt to spread racism and hatred” and “disgusting and lacking in human decency and humanism”, as well as “a hoax about the personality and dignity of people who profess Islam. “.
The declaration, as yesterday, emphasized that freedom of expression and of the press must be within the framework of human ethics and responsibility, not violate rights and freedoms and not harm others. We must be sensitive to the issues that trample upon the individual, because that is the basis of tolerance and good coexistence between the different in a society, calls the Chief Mufti.
In 2015, the French satirical weekly was the victim of a terrorist attack in which 12 of its perpetrators died and 11 were injured. Five other people, including police officers, were killed in Paris at the time by bullets fired by Islamic State terrorists, the Saeed brothers and Sheriff Kuashi and Amedi Coulibaly. On October 16 of this year, history teacher Samuel Patti was beheaded in Paris by a young man of Chechen descent for showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in class. Yesterday, the Chief Mufti of Bulgaria in a statement expressed “strong concern over the growing Islamophobia and anti-Muslim rhetoric of French President Emmanuel Macron and other political and public leaders” and condemned provocative messages that serve the interests of hostile politicians and their supporters. Union. “The reason is the attempt of the French president to defend after the assassination of the teacher the right to show cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Read about the roots of the Erdogan-Macron axis of tension here.
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