Indonesia and Malaysia, too, summon India’s envoys over BJP spokeswoman’s blasphemous remarks

JAKARTA: Indonesia and Malaysia have both summoned India’s envoys in their countries over “derogatory” remarks made about the Holy Prophet (PBUH) by two officials with the South Asian nation’s ruling party, their foreign ministries said Tuesday.

It comes as anger spreads across the Arab and Muslim world, with various Middle Eastern nations summoning New Delhi’s envoys and a Kuwaiti supermarket removing Indian products.

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Remarks by a spokeswoman for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who has since been suspended, sparked the furore. Another official, the party’s media chief for Delhi, posted a tweet last week about the Prophet that was later deleted.