ISLAMABAD, KOMPAS.com – Prime Minister Pakistan, Imaran khan, wrote a letter to the leaders of majority countries Muslim, asking them “to act collectively against growth Islamophobia in non-Muslim countries “.
Launch Al Jazeera on Thursday (29/10/2020), Khan published the letter on Wednesday, but did not explain to the leaders of which countries it was sent.
Meanwhile, he has uploaded the letter to his official Twitter account.
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My letter to leaders of Muslim states to act collectively to counter the growing Islamophobia in non-Muslim states esp Western states causing increasing concern amongst Muslims the world over. pic.twitter.com/OFuaKGu2c1
– Imran Khan (mImranKhanPTI) October 28, 2020
The letter follows Khan’s remarks to President of France Emmanuel Macron earlier this week, in which he accused Macron of “encouraging Islamophobia” with steps made by his government to tackle a problem Macron called “separatism.” Islam“.
Macron’s comments accuse Muslim religious schools of “indoctrination” and of defending the “right to condemn” freedom of expression that fueled atrocities in various parts of the Muslim world.
Macron’s comments then prompted calls for a boycott of various products France in several countries.
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The French leader made his comments following the incident of the murder of a French teacher who had shown a cartoon Nabi Muhammad to his students during lessons, in early October.
In a letter Khan wrote, he called on the leaders of Muslim-majority countries to unite on what he called a “wave of increasing Islamophobia and attacks”.
Khan did not explicitly mention France in his letter, but he did mention “the recent statements at the leadership level … are a reflection of the increasing Islamophobia spreading in European countries, where the Muslim population residing there is quite large.”
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Dangerous cycle
Khan said European leaders do not understand the “love and devotion of Muslims around the world for the Prophet (Muhammad) and his holy book, Al-Quran.”
“As a result, a cycle of dangerous actions and reactions began to move,” he wrote, referring to acts of violence in response to actions deemed to have insulted the Prophet Muhammad and the Qur’an.
“This painful act generated a reaction from Muslims because they saw their faith and their beloved Prophet being targeted,” Khan said.
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It was, “which resulted in further discriminatory action by the government against the Muslim population in their state, which resulted in the marginalization of Muslims and the creation of space for right-wing radical groups to exploit the situation,” he explained.
Khan also reiterated the call he made in a letter to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg this week, that the figure of the prophet and the Quran be treated as equal to the Holocaust as a topic that cannot be insulted, questioned or disrespected, under the right to free speech.
Since coming to power in 2018, Prime Minister Pakistan has frequently raised the issue of increasing attacks against Muslims, both physically and through administrative measures by the relevant governments, particularly during its annual speech at the United Nations General Assembly.
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