Following the publication of blasphemous sketches and French President Macron's controversial statement on Islam, while the leadership of various Muslim countries called it provocative and incomprehensible and irresponsible in support of Islamophobia, celebrities also criticized it. Has reacted strongly. Recently, Munawar Rana, a famous Urdu poet in India, had expressed his feelings over the incident in France, after which an FIR has been registered against him.
An FIR has been registered against Munawar Rana at Hazratganj police station in Lucknow on the instructions of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Munawar Rana is known as a realist poet and he is not only a poet of Urdu but also of Hindi. He had said on the murder of a teacher in France that the religious sentiments of the Muslims were inflamed and they were forced to kill him by making a sketch of the Prophet of Islam. He said that such a move was instigated by creating controversy. An FIR has been registered in France alleging that his statement was in support of the teacher's murder.
The famous Indian poet said that if someone insults your mother or religion and makes a bad cartoon or abuses it, it can provoke emotions and force anyone to do wrong in anger.
It should be noted that a controversial statement of President Macron came to light in France after the murder of a teacher, after which protests against France continue in Muslim countries, while Indian Prime Minister Modi expressed solidarity with France in his statement. He has said that he stands with France against terrorism.
Munawar Rana says about the FIR against him that he has been told by someone that a warden named Deepak Pandey has filed a case against him, but I still stand by my statement. "The pen we have is to write the truth. We would like to go to jail and die in jail, but we will stick to our statement," he said.
