Insulting Prophet Muhammad SAW means insulting all Muslims

TEHRAN – President Iran Hassan Rouhani criticized the deal French against Islam. He added that Western support for the cartoons was describes the prophet Muhammad unethical and offensive to Muslims.

In a televised cabinet meeting, Rouhani said that freedom must be accompanied by respect for values ​​and ethical considerations.

“Westerners must understand the great prophet of Islam loved by all Muslims and lovers of world freedom,” Rouhani said.

“Insulting the Prophet is insulting all Muslims. Insulting the Prophet is insulting all prophets, human values ​​and is tantamount to undermining ethics,” he added, quoted in Al Jazeera, Wednesday (10/28/2020).(Also read: French goods boycott movement gains momentum in Bangladesh)

Prophet Muhammad was highly respected by Muslims and all forms of visual representation of himself were forbidden in Islam. Caricature of the Prophet made by a French magazine, Charlie hebdo, is seen by Muslims as offensive and Islamophobic because it is seen as a link between Islam and terrorism.

These images are regularly published by the satirical magazine. They were cited as the reasons behind the deadly attack on the magazine’s offices in early 2015 by two perpetrators linked to Al Qaeda.

On October 16 this year, French teacher Samuel Paty was killed in broad daylight near his school on the outskirts of Paris after showing cartoons to his students as part of a debate on freedom of expression.(Also read: Cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad became debate material, teachers in France were beheaded)