Muslim leaders speak of "growing world Islamophobia"

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other Muslim leaders today strongly condemned the attacks on two mosques in New Zealand and blamed them for growing Islamophobia, while France and the United Kingdom quickly reinforced security in their mosques and elsewhere. of worship. Erdogan called on the international community to act against the "dangerous trend" in which attacks against Muslims in Western societies are becoming members of the right-wing xenophobic and Islamophobic, which he compared to "cancer" "that spreads.
"We urge the world and Western countries in particular to take urgent action to combat this dangerous trend," he added.
"The current Islamophobia is generated after the attacks of September 11, 2001. It is the fault of these attacks, they accuse 1,300 million Muslims of any act of terrorism," said Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan .
The Saudi government has also repudiated the attacks "in the strongest terms" by stating that "terrorism has no religion or home".
In Europe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel described the Christchurch mbadacre in New Zealand as "racist hate".
"We must remain united before such acts of terrorism, these people prayed peacefully in their mosque," said the minister, quoted by the DPA news agency.
In the UK, police said they have deployed additional staff to protect the country's mosques.
Security forces will also maintain contacts with communities of different faiths to advise them on how best to strengthen the security of their temples, the British police said in a statement.
British Prime Minister, Theresa May, expressed the United Kingdom's solidarity with the New Zealand people after what she described as "scary".
Queen Elizabeth II of England, Head of State of New Zealand, said she was "deeply saddened" by this attack and offered her condolences and that of her husband, Prince Philip, to all the Neo -Zélandais.
"Prince Felipe and I extend our condolences to the families and friends of all those who lost their lives," said Isabel II, Chief of the State of New Zealand, in a message sent to country.
French President Emmanuel Macron, on tour in Africa, reported on his Twitter account "the heinous crimes against the mosques of Christchurch" and insisted that "France is opposed to all forms of extremism and acts with its partners terrorism in the world ".
The French Interior Minister, Christophe Castaner, announced that he had ordered a reinforcement of the surveillance of religious centers and ordered the police "the greatest vigilance and the strengthening of places of worship".
Muslims are the second largest religious community in France, with several million inhabitants.