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Faizel Patel – 27/10/2020
The Secretary General of the Jamiatul Ulama South Africa Ml Ebrahim Bham says the relationship between Muslims and Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is a core of the Islamic faith, our identity and our existence.
Ml Bham was commenting on the deepening crisis in France after French President Emmanuel Macron’s critique of Islam and the beheading of a teacher who had shown caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) previously published by satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo,
Macron described Islam as a religion “in crisis” worldwide and said the government would present a bill in December to strengthen a 1905 law that officially separated church and state in France.
The Jamiatul Ulama South Africa on Monday issued a statement saying Macron’s obsession with, and intended crackdown on Islam and Muslims, calls to question the true nature of the French state which sloganeers the motto: Liberté, égalité, fraternité [Liberty, equality, fraternity].
Ml Bham says regardless of the blasphemous portrayal of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) by France and others, the sanctity and the love that is held by Muslims with regards to the last prophet of Allah will remain undiminished.
“The blasphemous portrayal of our beloved Nabi-e-Kareem (SAW) in France has greatly hurt and angered Muslims throughout the world. We find it amazing that the freedom that they talk of can only be asserted by insulting, demeaning and offending another person’s belief and conscious. This is something that is diabolical to say the least.”
Meanwhile Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called on his country to boycott French goods amid a row over France’s tough stance on radical Islam.
In a televised address, Erdoğan has angrily criticised his French counterpart Macron for pledging to defend secular values.
Macron said earlier this week France will not give up on their cartoons.
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