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New York (CNN) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad slammed Sunday an anti-Islam film and the violent and deadly protests it triggered in the Muslim world.
Ahmadinejad spoke to CNN’s Piers Morgan in New York, ahead of the president’s visit to the U.N. General Assembly this week.
“Fundamentally, first of all, any action that is provocative, offends the religious thoughts and feelings of any people, we condemn,” he said about the inflammatory film that mocks the Prophet Mohammed as a womanizer, child molester and killer.
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“Likewise, we condemn any type of extremism. Of course, what took place was ugly. Offending the Holy Prophet is quite ugly. This has very little or nothing to do with freedom and freedom of speech. This is the weakness of and the abuse of freedom, and in many places it is a crime. It shouldn’t take place and I do hope the day will come in which politicians will not seek to offend those whom others hold holy,” said Ahmadinejad.
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May be the President of Iran read the Press Release of the Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at in The Muslim Times?