Egypt’s Dar al-Iftaa, Fatwa House, denounced on Tuesday Charlie Hebdo’s plans to publish other offensive cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), rejecting them as unjustified provocation for 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide.
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"This action is an unjustified provocation against the feelings of 1.5 billion Muslims," the Dar al-Ifta said in a statement on Tuesday, January 13, cited by Agence France Presse (AFP).
"This (magazine) edition will result in a new wave of hatred in French and Western society. What the magazine is doing does not serve co-existence and the cultural dialogue Muslims aspire to," the statement added.
The new edition of Charlie Hebdo is scheduled to be released on Wednesday.
The magazine, which operates currently from France’s Liberation, will feature cartoon of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) on the front page.
Other cartoons inside the magazine will mock many of the world leaders who rushed to support it after attacks
Dar al-Ifta is headed by the mufti, the government's official interpreter of Islamic law.
Ibrahim Negm, the advisor of the Mufti, told AFP the institution condemned the bloody attack on the magazine's offices last week by extremists after it published satirical depictions of the Muslim prophet.
"We call on all Muslims not to participate in violence," he said.
"We denounce violence and respect freedom of opinion. But the other side has to understand that we love the Prophet Mohammed."
Charlie Hebdo has a long reputation for being provocative.
In September 2012, the French weekly published cartoons displaying a man said to be the prophet as naked.
In 2011, the office of the magazine was firebombed after it published an edition "guest-edited by Muhammad", which the satirical weekly called Shari`ah Hebdo.
Dar Al-Ifta is an educational institute founded to represent Islam and the international flagship for Islamic legal research since its establishment in 1313 AH/1895 CE.
It fulfills its role by keeping contemporary Muslims in touch with religious principles, clarifying "the right way," removing doubts concerning religious and worldly life, and revealing religious law for the new issues of contemporary life.
Dar Al-Ifta draws upon the Qur’an and the sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him), and consults the opinions of jurists throughout history to carry out its important role of helping Muslims live their lives according to the principles of Islam.
