France’s Islamophobia speeds up inevitable decline of US, Israel: Iran's IRGC

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has vehemently condemned the support of French officials for derogatory cartoons against the Prophet of Islam, noting that France’s Islamophobia project only speeds up the inevitable fall of the United States and the Zionist regime.

In a statement released on Monday, the IRGC said the Islamophobia project has entered a new phase after the French Charlie Hebdo magazine reprinted derogatory cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) and the country’s “imbecile and adventurist president” supported that move.

The IRGC noted that this measure proves “a major contradiction in the West, especially [in a country like France, which claims to be] the pioneer of the so-called freedom of expression in Europe, [and] which is trying to hide its failure in preventing the progress of Islam and stymie increasing tendency of Western citizens toward Islam.”

While strongly condemning this anti-Islam measure, the IRGC statement noted that this is a “failed project, which nonetheless will speed up the inevitable fall of the United States and the Zionist regime.”

“The leaders of the hegemonic and Zionist system, who are the main sponsors of extremist and Takfiri groups... will not be able to liberate the crisis-hit and inhumane West from its self-produced quagmire, and without a doubt, they will receive appropriate answers from the Islamic Ummah in not-so-distant future, which will not be limited to boycott of French products and street protests,” the IRGC said.

In a televised address on October 1, French President Emmanuel Macron said his government was working to propose a bill to France’s parliament next year to address what he called “Islamist isolationism and separatism.” Under the plan, France will fight what Macron described as the favoring of religious laws over France’s republican, secular “values.”

The French president also claimed that Islam is “a religion that is today in crisis all over the world.”

Macron has also approved the publication of blasphemous cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and stressed that his country would not give up the insulting cartoons despite harsh criticisms from Muslims.

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