Outrage over Macron’s comments against Islam

Lahore, 25th October: French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday accused Muslims of separatism and vowed not to give up cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammed.

Baaghi TV: Protests around the world are being held against the French President Macron who made anti-Islam comments recently.

PM Khan condemns the French President’s actions

The leader’s comments came in response after the beheading of a 47-year-old teacher, Samuel Paty, who was attacked on his way home from the junior high school where he taught in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, 40 kilometres northwest of Paris.

#ShameOnYouMacron is trending on Twitter at the top right now in Pakistan.

https://twitter.com/waseemtariq_/status/1320304686398930945?s=20

International news website TRT World wrote, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday, condemned Macron’s statements on Twitter.

“It is unfortunate that he has chosen to encourage Islamophobia by attacking Islam rather than the terrorists who carry out violence, be it Muslims, White Supremacists or Nazi ideologists. Sadly, President Macron has chosen to deliberately provoke Muslims, incl his own citizens, through encouraging the display of blasphemous cartoons targeting Islam & our Prophet PBUH.”

The last thing the world wants or needs is further polarisation. Public statements based on ignorance will create more hate, Islamophobia & space for extremists.

— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) October 25, 2020

Turkey’s Communications Director Fahrettin Altun on Sunday said that offensive caricatures, separatism against Muslims, and mosque raids aren’t about freedom of expression, but about reminding Muslims they will never belong in EU.

Here’s what those Europeans need to understand: Muslims won’t go away because you don’t want us. We won’t turn the other cheek when you insult us. We will defend ourselves and our own at all costs.

— Fahrettin Altun (@fahrettinaltun) October 25, 2020

He wrote on his Twitter handle, “Here’s what Europeans against Islam and Muslims need to understand, We won’t go away because you don’t want us, We won’t turn the other cheek when you insult us, We will defend ourselves and our own at all costs.”

Europe’s hostility towards Muslims and efforts to ‘discipline’ them is inseparable from the increasingly widespread hostility towards Islam, Turkey and our president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

— Fahrettin Altun (@fahrettinaltun) October 25, 2020

TRT World reported that on Saturday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan slammed Macron over his policies toward Muslims, saying that the French president needed “mental checks.”

“What can one say about a head of state who treats millions of members from different faith groups this way: first of all, have mental checks,” Erdogan said in a televised address.

Turkey’s President Erdogan calls out French President Macron by asking what his problem is with Islam and Muslims pic.twitter.com/QDikYU3a0d

— TRT World Now (@TRTWorldNow) October 25, 2020

Meanwhile, Egypt’s world-renowned Islamic institution denounced Macron’s remarks about Islam. Scholars at Al Azhar University on Sunday called Macron’s statement ‘racist’.

On Saturday, Jordan’s foreign ministry said it condemned the “continued publication of caricatures of Prophet Muhammed under the pretext of freedom of expression” and any “discriminatory and misleading attempts that seek to link Islam with terrorism.”

Boycotts are already underway in Kuwait and Qatar. In Doha, workers are stripping their shelves of the French products from their big grocery stores.

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