India faces severe backlash from Muslim world after ruling party insults Prophet Muhammad

Muslim countries including Qatar, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia condemn remarks about Prophet Muhammad made by top officials in India's Bharatiya Janata Party, as calls grow on social media for boycott of Indian goods in Muslim countries.

India's ruling right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has faced diplomatic backlash after Qatar, Kuwait and Iran summoned the country's envoys over insulting remarks on Islam's Prophet Muhammad by two of its officials, with several other Muslim countries also voicing outrage and condemning the statements, according to TRT World.

In a statement on Sunday, the Qatari Foreign Ministry said it summoned the Indian envoy to voice "disappointment of Qatar and its total rejection and condemnation to the controversial remarks."

Qatari Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Soltan bin Saad Al Muraikhi handed a note to the Indian envoy, according to the ministry statement.

The note asserted that "these insulting remarks would lead to incitement of religious hatred, and offend more than two billion Muslims around the world." Doha is expecting "a public apology and immediate condemnation of these remarks," from the Indian government, it added.

Nupur Sharma, the spokesperson of the BJP, now suspended, had made insulting remarks against the Prophet and his wife Ayesha in a TV debate, triggering a wave of condemnation at home and from the Islamic world.

Another BJP spokesperson and the party's Delhi media head Naveen Kumal Jindal were expelled from the right-wing party over comments he made about Prophet Muhammad on Twitter.

Reacting to Indian ruling party official Nupur's remark's, Grand Mufti of Oman said, "the insolent and obscene rudeness of the official spokesman for the ruling extremist party in India against the Messenger of Islam and his pure wife Aisha is a war against every Muslim in the east and west of the earth, and it is a matter that calls for all Muslims to rise as one nation."

Sheikh Al-Khalili also called for boycott of Indian products in the Arab country.