بريطانيا: اعتراضات إسلامية على استضافة معرض للصور المسيئة

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استنكرت الجمعيات الإسلامية بـ"الممكلة المتحدة" إعلان حملة "شريعة ووتش" المعادية للشريعة الإسلامية - عن استضافة معرضٍ للصور المسيئة، ودعوة السياسي الهولندي "خيرت فيلدرز" المعادي للإسلام سبتمبر المقبل.

وأشارت الجمعيات الإسلامية إلى أن هذا من شأنه أن يضر بالتعايش السلمي ووَحْدة المجتمع، وإثارة غضب المسلمين بما قد يكون له تبعات سلبية.

وقد أشار "مقداد فيرسي" - مساعد الأمين العام للمجس الإسلامي بـ"بريطانيا" - إلى أن ممارسات الكراهية ضد الإسلام أصبحت مقبولة مجتمعيًّا؛ مما يُنذر بخطر مُحدق؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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UK Muslims decry move to host Prophet Muhammad exhibit

UK-based anti-Sharia campaign group will host an exhibition featuring cartoons of the prophet of Islam in September.

Muslim organisations in the UK have condemned a move by an anti-Sharia campaign group to host an exhibition featuring cartoons of Prophet Muhammad in London in September.

Azad Ali, chair of the Muslim Safety Forum based in London, said on Friday the proposed "Muhammad Cartoon Exhibit" by UK-based Sharia Watch was an attempt to taunt the tolerance levels of British Muslims, and described the move as a cheap attempt to create disharmony in the UK.

"They keep on pushing the boundary, testing the levels and always upping the ante ... this is what this is about: getting a reaction from Muslims and looking for a justification to demonise us," Ali said.

"We are looking to find ways for a positive discussion to come out of this, but no one thinks the planned event is anything but racist," he said.

The exhibit is set to feature controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders as a speaker. Wilders is known to be vehemently anti-Islam.

Miqdaad Versi, assistant secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said the proposed event illustrated that Islamophobia had now become socially acceptable in Britain.

"It [Islamophobia] has become mainstream, and acceptable, and this has provided a platform for more extreme views to surface," Versi said.

Depictions of Prophet Muhammad are banned in Islam and many Muslims say they are being continuously provoked and taunted with demeaning depictions of the prophet that are often seen as "vile and racist".

In 2006, violent protests erupted in parts of the Arab world and South Asia as Muslims took to the streets to demonstrate against the publication of cartoons of Prophet Muhammad by the Jyllands-Posten newspaper in Denmark.

The same cartoons were published by French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, prompting an arson attack on the newspaper in 2011.