{"id":311810,"date":"2020-11-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/%d8%a7%d8%ae%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b1\/ayatollah-khatami-anti-france-measures-should-continue-until-macrons-apology-to-muslims\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T09:23:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T05:53:59","slug":"ayatollah-khatami-anti-france-measures-should-continue-until-macrons-apology-to-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/news\/ayatollah-khatami-anti-france-measures-should-continue-until-macrons-apology-to-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayatollah Khatami: Anti-France measures should continue until Macron\u2019s apology to Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong>According to the AhlulBayt World Assembly News Portal: <\/strong>A senior member of Iran\u2019s Guardian Council underlined the need for Islamic states to continue measures against France, including boycott of French products, until the country\u2019s President Emanuel Macron apologizes to the Muslims for supporting sacrilege of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\n\u201cThe angry roaring which has started in the Muslim world should continue until Macron\u2019s official apology and the same trend which has started in the Islamic world, including boycott of the French goods, should continue to force him to apologize,\u201d Seyed Ahmad Khatami, the new member of the Guardian Council\u2019s presiding board, said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\nHe blasted the French officials for supporting the blasphemy of Islamic sanctities under the pretext of freedom of expression, and said, \u201cYour freedom of expression is a lie; if anyone opposes your view about the Holocaust, he\/she will be sentenced and imprisoned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\nHis remarks came after Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei in a message to the French youth strongly blasted the destructive role played by Macron and his government in supporting hatred against Muslims and spreading Islamophobia, following the recent sacrilege of Islam&#8217;s Holy Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) in the European country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\nThe Iranian Leader blasted the role played by the French government in spreading Islamophobia, and raised important questions in his message.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\n\u201cAsk your President why he supports insulting God\u2019s Messenger in the name of freedom of expression. Does freedom of expression mean insulting, especially a sacred personage? Isn\u2019t this stupid act an insult to the reason of the people who elected him?\u201d he said in his message.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\n\u201cThe next question to ask is: why is it a crime to raise doubts about the Holocaust? Why should anyone who writes about such doubts be imprisoned while insulting the Prophet (PBUH) is allowed?\u201d Ayatollah Khamenei added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\nIn recent weeks and after a French teacher was beheaded by an ISIL member after he displayed cartoons of the prophet of Islam, Macron attacked Islam and the Muslim community, accusing Muslims of &#8220;separatism&#8221;, and he said previously that &#8220;Islam is a religion in crisis all over the world&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\nThe incident in Paris coincided with a provocative move by Charlie Hebdo, a left-wing French magazine infamous for publishing anti-Islamic content, which has drawn widespread anger and outrage across the Muslim world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\nThe caricatures were first published in 2006 by a Danish newspaper Jylllands Posten, sparking a wave of protests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior member of Iran\u2019s Guardian Council underlined the need for Islamic states to continue measures against France, including boycott of French products, until the country\u2019s President Emanuel Macron apologizes to the Muslims for supporting sacrilege of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":311807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[4916,1619],"class_list":["post-311810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-condemnation-of-the-insulting-prophet-of-islam-p","tag-sayyid-ahmad-khatami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401242,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311810\/revisions\/401242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}