By Umar Rumi

France is recalling its ambassador from Turkey, incensed at “unacceptable” and “disrespectful” Erdoğan’s “disrespectful” statements on their pathetic Macron, while at the same time reclaiming their “freedom of speech” right to insult Sayyid al-khalq ﺻﻠﻰ ﺍﻟﻠﻪ ﻋﻠﻴﻪ ﻭﺳﻠﻢ , even doubling down (in a totally childish and purely hateful way) by featuring their blasphemous cartoons on government buildings.

What it is important to notice here is that what we have in front of us aren’t just “ hypocritical double standards “, rather, this is all a consequence of their ideology actually constituting a “civil secular religion”, for which the Nation State and the Republican Institutions are their god and religion, with its dogmas, rituals, sacred standard, priests, etc.

In such a setting, for them insulting Prophets ﻋﻠﻴﻬﻢ ﺍﻟﺴﻼﻡ comes across as something absolutely innocent, while disbelieving in their taghut institution is seen as nothing short of blasphemous…