Diplomatic fallout
The story so far: China on June 13joined the list of countries that have responded with varying intensities to the Prophet remarks controversy, saying that it hoped the incident could be “properly managed”. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said while responding to reporters in Beijing: “It is important to abandon arrogance and prejudice, and important to deepen recognition and understanding of one’s own civilisation and differences from other civilisations and promote dialogue and harmonious co-existence.”
Meanwhile, Bangladesh on Sunday, June 12, despite continued protests in the country over the controversy, took a fairly neutral stance on the matter as being India’s “internal issue.” This, however, has not been the case with several other countries as India deals with the diplomatic fallout of the controversial remarks made by now-suspended Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokespersons Nupur Sharma and Naveen Jindal on Prophet Mohammad in late May on television news channel Times Now.
