Shop in Nizwa, Oman. File photoDOHA, Jun 5 Ahmed al-Khalili, Grand Mufti of the Sultanate of Oman, on Sunday urged Muslims around the world to rise up and respond to offensive statements against the Prophet of Islam Muhammad and his wife Aisha by a representative of India's ruling party «Bharatiya Janata.» «The gross and obscene pretentiousness of the official representative of the ruling party of India towards the prophet Muhammad and his righteous wife, the mother of the faithful, Aisha is a war against every Muslim in the east and west, which requires all Muslims to rise up and respond to insults» ,» al-Khalili said in a statement on Twitter. Kuwait and Iran have summoned the Indian ambassadors to those countries in protest against the anti-Muslim remarks of the official representative of the ruling party, who was wounded from her post and stripped of party membership thereafter. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation also announced its protest.
