MDP calls on President Yameen to repent for “insulting” heaven remarks
27 Dec 2014, 3:56 PM
Zaheena Rasheed
The opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) has called on President Abdulla Yameen to repent for insulting Islam by allegedly likening the Maldives to heaven in the afterlife.
The statement comes after Yameen on Thursday urged a visiting Saudi Arabian trade delegation to “get warmed up” for heaven in the afterlife by investing in paradise on earth, the Maldives.
“As Muslim brothers, we all strive to go to Jannathul Firdous [paradise]. While we have a paradise in the heavenly Maldives, I urge all Saudi business people, if you are seeking to go to Jannathul-paradise in your afterlife, why don’t you get warmed up for that? Paradise is here in the Maldives,” the president had said in a speech in English.
The MDP claimed Yameen had directly compared the Maldives to heaven in the afterlife and said that his remarks are demonstrative of the “concerning level” to which Islamic unity has deteriorated in the Maldives.
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