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Sisi also said he firmly rejects any form of violence or
terrorism from anyone in the name of defending religion,
religious symbols or icons.
"We also have rights. We have the right for our feelings not to
be hurt and for our values not to be hurt," he said during an
address to commemorate the Prophet Mohammad's birthday.
"And if some have the freedom to express what is in their
thoughts I imagine that this stops when it comes to offending
the feelings of more than 1.5 billion people," he added in
televised remarks.
The Grand Imam of Egypt's al-Azhar university, one of the
world's most eminent seats of Sunni Muslim learning, also called
on the international community to criminalise "anti-Muslim"
actions.
Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, who sits at the head of the
thousand-year-old institution, also said that al-Azhar strongly
rejects the use of anti-Muslim sentiment to rally votes in
elections.
Turkey’s leader Tayyip Erdogan has called for a boycott of
French goods and Pakistan’s parliament passed a resolution
urging the government to recall its envoy from Paris.
(Reporting by Nadine Awadalla; Writing by Ulf Laessing; Editing
by Catherine Evans, William Maclean)
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