Tehran, YJC. The Iranian FM has warned against the rising Islamophobia as the aftermath of the January 7 attack on Charlie Hebdo.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said "the quite unsettling and pervasive
manifestations of Islamophobia” are on increase.
His remarks came in a letter to UN Secretary General Ban
Ki-moon on Saturday.
The Iranian foreign minister asserted that Muslims around
the world condemn in clear and unequivocal terms the unjustifiable killings by
members of an infamous, violent and extremist group.
He added that such senseless resorts to violence has no
place in Islam and its exalted teachings and are not acceptable to Muslims, but
that the ones who seek to spread Islamophobia are trying to portray a different
image of the religion.
"The topic for us, in the Islamic Republic, and in the
larger Muslim world, is the double-standards when it comes to the question of
the proclaimed defense of the universally respected principle of the freedom of
expression,” he observed.
He expressed grave concern over the frequent desecration of
Islamic sanctities by Western political quarters and media, while, as he added,
any material considered as anti-Semitic in Western media is forbidden and punishable.