Zarif: French mag. cartoons are example of West's institutionalized hypocrisy

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has denounced as “institutionalized hypocrisy” a French satirical magazine’s reprinting of offensive cartoons attributing it to the Prophet Mohammad (SAWA).

In a tweet on Wednesday, Zarif said the decision by Charlie Hebdo to recirculate cartoons about the Prophet Muhammad (blessings of God upon him and his progeny) were not freedom of expression, but institutionalized hypocrisy.

He said the “stereotypical defamation and desecration” of Prophet and Holy Book “instigates violence and hatred against 1.8 Billion Muslims.”

On the contrary, “Touch party line about events in recent history—repugnant as they are forbidden," the tweet said. adding, “Enough already.”

The French weekly reprinted the blasphemous caricatures on the eve of the trial of suspects in a deadly gun rampage on its office in early 2015.

The blasphemous cartoons have drawn strong criticism from Muslim countries who call it an Islamophobic act.

However, in a move that was criticized by Muslims, including those in the European country, French President Emmanuel Macron refused to condemn the reprinting of the blasphemous cartoons.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei condemned the French magazine, saying such hostile moves are rooted in the “deeply anti-Islamic policies” of Zionists and arrogant governments.

In a message released on Tuesday, the Leader said “the grave and unforgivable sin committed” by the French magazine once again “revealed the hostility and malicious grudge harbored by the political and cultural organizations in the west against Islam and the Muslim community.”

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