Ayatollah Makarem issues statement regarding insulting the Prophet Muhammad (S)

Rasa – Ayatollah Naser Makarem-Shirazi has released a statement condemning the West’s campaign of Islamophobia and publishing of cartoons insulting Islam’s beloved Prophet Muhammad (S).

News ID: 2041

Date: 22 January 2015 - 16:43

In the Name of God, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful

The truth is that the western politicians have no political sense and wisdom; otherwise they would not have entered such a conflict with the world of Islam due to the atrocities of a small extremist group and would not have started such a dangerous game instead of rational thinking.

Today the entire Islamic world is enraged due to the West’s insulting the great Prophet of Islam and waves after waves of hatred and rage have permeated the Muslim world due to the insult levelled by the French magazine and the support given to them in this regard by the western governments.

The story was that a group of terrorist Takfiris, who were created by the West itself, went to France and committed a crime that we all strongly condemn. We condemn terrorism, however it is clothed and by whatever group it is supported; however, instead of finding the roots of terrorism and the uprooting it and preventing aids to be given to this small Takfiri group so that they would be quickly destroyed, the western politicians have started a dangerous game and have changed the issue to the issue of fighting the Muslim world. They have insulted the great Prophet of Islam and they persist being obstinate in this regard ever more, and they have printed more issues of this insulting magazine and spread it everywhere and they have called all this protecting the freedom of speech!

This is while everyone knows that the most basic sign of humanity is refraining from hurting others and we also know that insulting the Great Prophet of Islam (S) is like a dagger that pierces the hearts of the Muslims; so is piercing the hearts of the Muslims all around the world the meaning of the freedom of speech?! Anyone with the least human sentiments will never allow such a thing to happen.

Even when the great Pope forbids them from doing this, they show no regard for his words and they say that they would continue their insults.

These western politicians are the descendants of those who started World War I and II with their arrogance and destroyed their own countries and got tens of millions of people killed and left tens of millions injured and disabled.

It is time that they thought a little bit and understood the true meaning of the freedom of speech and stop their arrogance in starting such dangerous games. They must apologize to the Muslims all around the stop destabilizing the world and driving it towards disturbance.

Blessed be those who follow the path of guidance.

Naser Makarem-Shirazi

Janurary 21, 2015

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