Turkish EU minister declares intellectuals and politicians who signed a French manifesto calling for the abrogation of the Quran as ‘ideological relatives of Daesh’
Turkey’s Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator Ömer Çelik slammed a French manifesto calling for the abrogation of the holy Quran.
The scandalous manifesto was published in the French daily Le Parisien on April 21, and was signed by approximately 300 intellectuals and politicians, including former President Nicolas Sarkozy and former Prime Minister Manuel Vall.
“Three hundred intellectuals and politicians have asked for the removal of certain Quranic verses based on the claim that they spread violence and anti-Semitism. Sarkozy is among them. This is the most striking example of intellectual violence and barbarity,” Çelik said in a post shared via his official Twitter account.
“These individuals have declared that they are ideological relatives of Daesh with this barbaric and amoral request. They could have only explained that they are close ideological relatives of Daesh in this way,” he added.
"These are the most dangerous ones; those who conceals themselves behind an intellectual and political image. This is the mentality of those who are so-called anti-violence, but in fact they worship the bigotry and violence," Çelik said.
The hatefully racist manifesto has been bet with outcry by Muslims in France and abroad. The manifesto wrongfully declared that the Quran incites violence, and stated that this violence is a part of “new anti-Semitism” perpetrated by French Muslims.
"Whoever these people are and whatever they have been doing up till now, they will be written at the beginning of the history of bigotry," Çelik said.
"Barbarism is intellectually and politically centered in the modern world," he added.
The French imam who serves at the Grand Mosque of Bordeaux, Tareq Oubrou, called the manifesto “nearly blasphemous.”
