Afghan president tells insurgents that “Islam is not being threatened, it is your rebellion which is hurting Muslims.”

Discrimination against residents of the country is unacceptable and the government is to take action over the issue, president Ashraf Ghani said on Sunday.

Speaking at a ceremony at the Presidential Place on Milad-un-Nabi - the Birthday of Muslims' Prophet Mohammad. Ghani said: “Our society doesn't need discrimination, it doesn't allow it,” Ghani said.

“Those who have anti-female sentiments and want to place obstacles on the way of the success of the Muslim women of Afghanistan, are in a real sense, undermining the development of the country and the progress of Islamic civilization,” said Ghani.

He also pointed to the insurgents and said that “Islam is not being threatened, it is your rebellion which is hurting Muslims.”

“Killing of innocent civilians does not have any place in Islam and those who are killing the people under name of Islam are murderers,” he said.

“Those bloodthirsty criminals who say that Islam is in danger, I want to tell them that Islam is not in danger, but it is the killings, crimes and treason which have devastated the Muslims,” said Ghani.

Meanwhile, the presidential palace has said in a statement that the president has offered an apology to the Afghan women over his recent remarks about the scarf.

On Saturday, Ghani stated that those who cannot prove their allegations of the links between Daesh and the government officials should wear the scarf. But the remarks led to a strong backlash among Afghans, women in particular.
 
Ghani’s second vice president, Mohammad Sarwar Danish, has said that those who are making allegations against the government officials and resort to creating division among the people are in-fact committing an act of treason on the future of people.

“Today both the Shias and the Sunnis and all other tribes in Afghanistan live like brothers and they respect each others’ rights. They fight in a common trench against Daesh, Taliban and al-Qaeda under the leadership of the national unity government,” said Danish.

Danish said that the government strongly supports the political gatherings and accepts constructive criticism, but no-one should try to harm the national interests under the name of a political gathering.