Sisi: Freedom of expression must stop when the feelings of Muslims are hurt

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi said today, Wednesday, that freedom of expression should stop when it comes to injuring the feelings of more than one and a half billion people, after the repeated publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in France.

Al-Sisi said that he "completely rejects any acts of violence or terrorism issued by any party under the slogan of defending religion or sacred religious symbols."

In a speech on the occasion of the birth anniversary of the Prophet, he added, "We also have rights. We have rights not to hurt our feelings and not to harm our values."

"If people have the right to express what is going on in their minds, then I imagine that this matter stops when the feelings of more than a billion and a billion people are hurt," he said in statements broadcast on Egyptian television.

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