Saudia Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain removes Indian products from stores after ‘Islamophobic’ Prophet remark

A Kuwaiti supermarket has removed Indian products from its shelves, following insulting statements made against the Prophet Muhammad by two officials of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India.

Workers at the Al Ardiya Co-operative Society store piled Indian tea and other products into trolleys in a protest against comments denounced as “Islamophobic”.

Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, and other countries in the region, as well as the influential Al Azhar University in Cairo, have condemned the remarks by a spokeswoman for the BJP, who has since been suspended.

On Sunday, Qatar demanded that India apologise for the comments and Iran followed Qatar and Kuwait by summoning the Indian ambassador in protest.

Al Azhar University, one of Islam’s most important institutions, said the comments were “the real terrorism” and “could plunge the entire world into deadly crisis and wars”.

The Saudi-based Muslim World League said the remarks could “incite hatred”, while Saudi Arabia’s General Presidency of the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque called them a “heinous act”.

The GCC Council “condemned, rejected and denounced” her comments.