Music Director Abdul Khaliq (earlier known as Yuvan Shankar Raja) posted a story on his Instagram account that called for the disfiguring of the face of French President Emmanuel Macron and his followers.
The post shared by Abdul Khaliq is originally that of a Russian mixed martial arts artist Khabib Nurmagomedov who is a Sunni Muslim and a friend of Ramzan Akhmadovich Kadyrov, the head of Chechen Republic accused of human rights abuses that includes rounding up, torture and execution of gay men.
With a defaced picture of French President Emmanuel Macron, the post that is in Russian and Arabic reads as follows:
“May the Almighty disfigure the face of this creature and all its followers, who, under the slogan of freedom of speech, offend the feelings of more than one and a half billion Muslim believers. May the Almighty humiliate them in this life, and in the next. Allah is quick in calculation and you will see it.
We are Muslims, we love our Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) more than our mothers, fathers, children, wives and all other people close to our hearts. Believe me, these provocations will come out sideways for them, the end is always for the God-fearing.”
The post also quotes a verse from Quran (33:57) the English translation of which says “For those who offend Allah and His Messenger, may God curse them in this world and in the Hereafter, and He has prepared for them a humiliating punishment”.
Yuvan Shankar Raja became Abdul Khaliq after getting converted to Islam in 2014.
French President Emmanuel Macron has been facing the ire from Islamists across the world for his tough stance on Islamic terrorism following the brutal beheading of a French school teacher named Samuel Paty by a radicalized Islamic terrorist.
He has categorically said that he will never let France be taken over by Islamists in the name of Islam.
Macron interview part 1: "I will never accept that we can justify physical violence because of caricatures." pic.twitter.com/0NkZbYXcwY
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Earlier, Abdul Khaliq was part of the DMK’s ‘Hindi Theriyathu Poda’ campaign in which he shared a picture of him wearing a t-shirt that says āI am a Tamil speaking Indianā standing next to a person wearing the t-shirt āHindi theriyathu podaā (I donāt know Hindi, Get lost!). The ‘Hindi Theriyathu Poda’ campaign started by DMK MP Kanimozhi in order to ignite language chauvinism in Tamil Nadu.