Muslims Protesting against West’s Attitude toward Islam, Activist Says
Swiss activist Manfred Petritsch says the West is waging a war against Islam and spirituality in general and Muslims are protesting against the attitude of the West toward Islam, Press TV reports.
In an exclusive interview on Monday, Petritsch told Press TV that “people are not protesting specially against the film, they are protesting against the whole attitude of the West towards the Islamic countries.”
Anti-US demonstrations, which began on September 11 over a blasphemous anti-Islam movie, which insults Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), continued on Monday, with protesters chanting slogans against Washington, marching on US embassies, and torching US flags across the world.
On September 19, a French magazine published cartoons mocking Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), which angered the Muslim world even more.
“A lot of people believe that the cause for all this protest is the film, but I think it’s not the film, the film was just the ignition point… There was a whole explosive mixture existing because of the American foreign policy or the foreign policy of the West as a whole against all Islamic countries; against the war they are fighting; against this double standard they are doing; against the killer drones, which are killing hundreds of civilians,” Petritsch said.
“We have to see this as a general picture of a war against spirituality. That means, they are not particularly attacking Islam, but they are attacking spirituality as a whole,” he added.
He went on to say that the assault on Christianity began a long time ago and “Christianity is more or less destroyed,” adding that “they are now attacking Islam.”
On September 11, US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other consulate staff members were killed in Benghazi after clashes involving a group of angry demonstrators near the consulate building.
Muslims in Iran, Turkey, Sudan, Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Iraq, Morocco, Syria, Lebanon, Kuwait, Nigeria, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Australia, Britain, the United States, France, Belgium, and several other countries have held many demonstrations to condemn the blasphemous movie over the past two weeks. Protests were also held in Kashmir and the Gaza Strip.
Anti-US demonstrations, which began on September 11 over a blasphemous anti-Islam movie, which insults Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), continued on Monday, with protesters chanting slogans against Washington, marching on US embassies, and torching US flags across the world.
On September 19, a French magazine published cartoons mocking Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), which angered the Muslim world even more.
“A lot of people believe that the cause for all this protest is the film, but I think it’s not the film, the film was just the ignition point… There was a whole explosive mixture existing because of the American foreign policy or the foreign policy of the West as a whole against all Islamic countries; against the war they are fighting; against this double standard they are doing; against the killer drones, which are killing hundreds of civilians,” Petritsch said.
“We have to see this as a general picture of a war against spirituality. That means, they are not particularly attacking Islam, but they are attacking spirituality as a whole,” he added.
He went on to say that the assault on Christianity began a long time ago and “Christianity is more or less destroyed,” adding that “they are now attacking Islam.”
On September 11, US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other consulate staff members were killed in Benghazi after clashes involving a group of angry demonstrators near the consulate building.
Muslims in Iran, Turkey, Sudan, Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Iraq, Morocco, Syria, Lebanon, Kuwait, Nigeria, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Australia, Britain, the United States, France, Belgium, and several other countries have held many demonstrations to condemn the blasphemous movie over the past two weeks. Protests were also held in Kashmir and the Gaza Strip.
