Ibrahim taken to task for alleged defence of Paris terror attacks

PETALING JAYA: There is no justification in taking innocent lives, as happened in the Paris terror attacks.
Referring to Perkasa chairman Datuk Ibrahim Ali's seeming defence of the suspects in the attacks, MCA Religious Harmony Bureau chairman Datuk Seri Ti Lian Ker said: "Ibrahim should emulate Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak and Putrajaya in sincerely condemning the massacres, rather than giving an excuse for vigilantism and lawlessness."
Ti called on the police to haul up Ibrahim for questioning, claiming that he "seems to be promoting violence and slaughter of innocents".
News portal Malaysiakini recently reported that Ibrahim allegedly defended the Charlie Hebdo massacre by saying "when the French government did not do anything (on the publication of caricatures against the Prophet), those insulted took the law into their own hands".
Ti noted that while it is wrong for Charlie Hebdo to mock Islam, the publication had also lampooned the Pope as well as government authorities.
"The majority of the estimated 4.7 million Muslims in France, or 7.5% of France's population which accounts for the largest Muslim population in Europe, would have been offended by the caricatures but they certainly did not go on a shooting rampage nor take hostages," he added.
He also advised the public to ignore Ibrahim's "bigoted ranting as none other than a xenophobic pursuit of publicity which he craves and which the media gives him".