Damage by ISIL no less than Prophet Muhammad cartoons, says head of Turkish Diyanet

ANKARA – Anadolu Agency

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Damage done by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants is no less than the damage caused by that wrought by “Islamophobic” drawers of "intolerable cartoons," Mehmet Görmez, head of the Turkish Religious Affairs (Diyanet), has said. 

“Today, the damage caused the networks, distant from any belief, reason and wisdom, who engrave the name [of God] on their so-called flags is no less than the [damage caused by] cartoons –intolerable by any means– by the pioneers of Islamophobia,” said Görmez on Dec. 21 in his message on Mawlid an-Nabi, the Islamic anniversary of the birthday of Prophet Muhammad, which is on the night of Dec. 22 this year. 

ISIL’s flag has God written on their black flag. 

Muslims are the ones to present Prophet Muhammad’s guidance to the whole world, Görmez said. 

“However, I regret to say that the biggest problem of Muslims today is that they have lost the status of being an example and cannot deservedly represent of our prophet’s message of grace and mercy,” he said. 

The whole geography of Muslims is witnessing one of the hardest periods in history, he added. 

Görmez wished the Mawlid would bring grace, mercy, peace, abundance and health to the country, nation and the whole world.