News:

The Diyarbakir 2nd Criminal Court of Peace decided to ban national access to websites showing Charlie Hebdo's front cover caricature of Wednesday... Agencies

Comment:

Entire media focused on this issue after the attacks on the French magazine who insulted our Prophet. Upon an invitation Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu went to Paris in order to condemn these attacks. Joining the march in Paris, Davutoğlu received harsh critics from Muslims with Islamic sensitivity. There arose reactions among social media, and in the public such as "are people only killed in France?", "Where have you been when Muslims were killed?", or "Why are you side by side with those who insult our Prophet?"

Davutoğlu and other officials send messages of condemnation one after another. In fact, the reactions from the government, and from those in Turkey who are strangers to Islam and Muslims were the same as the reactions in the West.

However, without even mentioning the insults against our Prophet (saw), but by walking together with the Western Kuffar in France, who showed the incident as a wanton attack; Prime Minister Davutoğlu made the following statements:"We determined in protecting our Prophet's (saw) honour. And every sensitive Muslim is prepared to stand for this. It is not correct to link this to the freedom of the press."

These words by Davutoğlu are in fact only statements in order to reduce the Muslims' reactions towards the insults of Allah's Messenger (pbuh). While his expressions in France, as well as in Germany have been more in a way of presenting Islam and the Muslims as culpable, through continuously stating "Islam is a religion of peace", "Islam and terror do not come side by side", "terror has no religion".

After the magazine insulted Allah's Messenger again in its new edition, and upon the publishing of these by some news sites, the 2nd Criminal Court of Peace in Diyarbakir decided to ban access to four websites. This is a law which was already introduced in order to block news reports against the government by the Gülen group, the so-called Parallal organisation. And now the access to some websites claiming to publish these caricatures insulting the Prophet (saw) under the name of freedom of press.

Muslims generally are the opinion that an access ban is something positive. And a lot of press statements, official complaints have been made to express this opinion. Also complaints at court have been made against some news papers and some writers, who were ordered to give deposition. And those anti-Islamic media groups criticized the access ban as "World's free media is being silenced", "this is restricting freedom of expression", or "Davutoğlu walks in France, but silences voices here."

Prime Minister Davutoğlu did not remember the 12 million Muslims killed during the last 10 years, while he was walking for the caricaturists who were enemies of Islam and the Muslims. He joined this march well knowing that the killers of these 12 million Muslims were those leaders who walked on that march. Those websites never talked about freedom, justice, and law when the lives and property of Muslims were wasted. As a matter of fact, when the matter is enmity against Islam, the West and those who are up to the West, just repeated the same things in different wordings.

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by

Musa Bayoğlu