Muslim Cleric Condemn Kenyan Publisher for Doing This
Muslim Clerics have condemned the Kenyan publisher included a drawing depicting Prophet Muhammad in a bad way in grade two books.
Led by the Kenya National Fatwa Council National Deputy Director, Sheikh Abubakar Bini they said the move is uncalled for and ill intended.
“As Muslim leaders we condemn the publisher in the strongest terms possible and for us to forgive him he must recall all the books that he has distributed in our schools,” said Bini while speaking to the press.
They said it was blasphemous to draw the prophet and to ask pupils to color in the illustration.
Mentor Publishing Company said it regretted the “grave” mistake in the book on Islamic studies for pupils in the second year of primary school.
About 11% of Kenyans are Muslims, the second largest religious group.
Depictions of the Prophet Muhammad can cause serious offence to Muslims, with most of Islamic religious leaders saying that tradition explicitly forbids images of Prophet Muhammad and Allah (God).
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