KUWAIT CITY (HRNW) – Anger in the Middle East spread Monday over comments made by an official of India s ruling party about the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH), with various countries summoning New Delhi s envoy and a Kuwaiti supermarket removing Indian products.
The United Arab Emirates became the latest country to voice its condemnation of the remarks, saying they were “contrary to moral and humanitarian values and principles.”
The UAE s foreign ministry underlined the “need for respecting religious symbols… and countering hate speech”, state news agency WAM reported.
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other countries in the region, as well as the influential Al-Azhar University in Cairo, have condemned the comments by a spokeswoman for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi s party, who has since been suspended.
In Kuwait, supermarket workers piled Indian tea and other products into trolleys in a protest against comments denounced as “Islamophobic”.
At the Al-Ardiya Co-Operative Society just outside Kuwait City, sacks of rice and shelves of spices and chilies were covered with plastic sheets. “We have removed Indian products”, signs in Arabic read.
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