Vice-Speaker Condemns Macron’s Impudence against Prophet of Islam

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TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Parliament’s Vice-Speaker Seyed Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi lashed out at French President Emanuel Macron’s support for republication of blasphemous cartoons by Charlie Hebdo magazine, and stressed that the move is a reaction to unity and awakening in the Islamic Ummah.

“The fury and sacrilege that we are witnessing today in the so-called civilized world against the grand Prophet of Islam, especially by mean people like Macron, is because of the awakening and unity in the Islamic Ummah,” Ghazizadeh Hashemi said on Wednesday.   

“If the Islamic Ummah gets united as one hand, world-devourer will be able to confront it,” he added.

^{Iranian Parliament’s Vice-Speaker Seyed Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi}

The official called for countering the perpetrators of this heinous act of insulting the Prophet of Islam.

In recent weeks, French President Emmanuel Macron attacked Islam and the Muslim community, accusing Muslims of "separatism", and he said previously that "Islam is a religion in crisis all over the world".

The incident in Paris coincided with a provocative move by Charlie Hebdo, a left-wing French magazine infamous for publishing anti-Islamic content, which has drawn widespread anger and outrage across the Muslim world.

The caricatures were first published in 2006 by a Danish newspaper Jylllands Posten, sparking a wave of protests.

In relevant remarks on Monday, Iran’s Judiciary Chief Seyed Ebrahim Rayeesi condemned the sacrilege of Islam’s Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) in France, saying the French disrespectful move is an insult to all other God's prophets as well.

^{Iran’s Judiciary Chief Seyed Ebrahim Rayeesi}

“Insulting the sanctities of millions of people is against the Abrahamic religions and is an insult to human beings and rationalism and is defending ignorance and giving freedom of action to ignorant people,” Rayeesi said, addressing the high-ranking Judiciary officials in Tehran on Monday.

He blasted the French government for supporting sacrilege of Islamic sanctities, and said, “Supporting the sacrilege of the last divine messenger of God by a government which claims to advocate freedom and human beings’ rights is actually insult to Prophet Moses (PBUH) and Jesus (PBUH) and against the freedom and rights of human beings.”

Rayeesi said gauging the Muslim world's sensitivity is one of the objectives pursued by those who have insulted the Islamic sanctities, who have now come to realize that such measures are condemned and hated not only by the Muslims but also other world people.