Wide condemnations from Arab nations continues against BJP national spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s alleged remarks against founder of Islam Prophet Muhammad. Now, UAE, Indonesia and Jordon too join long list of Islamic nations against offending claims.
The UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC) on Monday rejected all practices demeaning the moral values and principles. UAE also stressed upon the need to respect religious figures and not counter all hate speech against them.
The Arab nation also affirmed the need of strengthening the shared responsibility to spread the values of human tolerance and coexistence on international level and also avoiding any such practice that hurt sentiments of all the followers of different religions.
The Jordon Ministry spokesperson Ambassador Haitham Abu Alfoul also expressed nation’s condemnation of any insulting statements against any Islamic or any other religious figures.
Indonesia too criticised the offending claims made by the sacked BJP leader against founder of Islam Prophet Muhammad.
BJP is already trying hard to troubleshoot the wide condemnation received by the Gulf nations like Oman, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar demanded a public apology from India saying that the comments from “fringe elements” are not the of views of the ruling Indian government.
When the remarks started taking shape of wide controversy, the ruling BJP suspended its national spokesperson Nupur Sharma and also party’s media head of Delhi unit Naveen Jindal.
In its letter to Nupur Sharma, the party’s central disciplinary committee said,
“You have expressed views contrary to the party’s position on various matters… Pending further inquiry, you are suspended from the party and from your responsibilities with immediate effect.”
“The BJP is strongly against any ideology which insults or demeans any sect or religion. The BJP does not promote such people or philosophy,” read a press release approved by the BJP national general secretary Arun Singh.
Meanwhile, a senior officer at the Qatar Embassy in New Delhi suggested that PM Modi’s administration should distance itself from such derogatory comments publicly.
