Pakistan President Arif Alvi on Saturday urged the political leadership of France “not to entrench the discriminatory attitudes against Muslims into laws” and warned that such steps would lead to serious repercussions in the shape of hatred and conflict.

The president’s call came in reference to a bill passed by the French parliament’s lower house on Tuesday with an overwhelming majority that would strengthen oversight of mosques, in an act seen as discrimination against Muslims, Express Tribune reported. 

 “You [France] need to bring people together and not to stamp a religion in a certain manner to create disharmony and bias”,” Alvi told an international conference on religious freedom and minorities' rights, 

Alvi said that the French legislation was not in line with the United Nations Charter and contradicted the spirit of social harmony that Europe previously instilled in its society. 

He warned that such a move would ultimately end up in a terrible scenario of hatred and hostility, the paper said. To label the entire religion in a different manner and to start taking precautions against the entire community sparks fears that, if not now, it will have very bad repercussions in the next 10 years,” he cautioned. 

He said the West should known that blasphemy in the name of freedom of expression was considered by the entire Muslim Ummah as unacceptable.