Teheran: Vahid Ahmadi, chairman of the Iranian parliament's foreign relations committee, said that freedom of expression is just an excuse for the West, and they are fearful of people's interest in Islam and that is why they resort to such insults, Tasnim news agency reported.
Ahmadi was referring to the recent publication of a blasphemous cartoon of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) by the French weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The senior Iranian lawmaker underlined that the West has been inciting Islamophobia to prevent Western people from getting attracted to Islam.
"They (Westerners) doing everything they can to stop the spread of Islam," he stated, adding that insulting Islamic sanctities and giving rise to terrorist groups like ISIL to tarnish the image of Islam are among the measures taken by the West to that end.
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