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Muslims around the world celebrate, this Thursday, the anniversary of the birth of the Prophet Muhammad, in conjunction with the greatest gift of the Islamic world, after the publication of insulting cartoons of him in France, and the statements of their president against Islam.
On this occasion, the Chechen Minister of Information and Press, Akhmed Dudayev, announced a reward of 100,000 rubles for each newborn named “Muhammad”, on October 28 and 29, in celebration of the Prophet’s birthday.
This is an annual tradition, which coincides with the celebration of the Prophet’s birthday, for which newborns bearing the name of Prophet Muhammad, or any name of the Prophet’s family and Companions, receive 100,000 rubles (equivalent to 1265 USD) .
And it announced the reward this year, through a statement published by the Chechen presidential and government daily, according to the Russian news agency TASS.
The president of the Muslim-majority Russian republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said Tuesday that the French president is rooting for terrorists by justifying offensive cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad as protected by the right to freedom of expression.
The comments by Kadyrov, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, came after France asked its citizens who live or travel to various Muslim-majority countries to take additional security precautions due to anger over the fees.
The conflict is due to a knife attack in front of a French school on October 16, during which a student (18 years old) of Chechen origin, a French history teacher named Samuel Bate (47 years old), was killed after Have Bate show his students satirical drawings of the Prophet Muhammad during a lesson on freedom of expression. .
The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was the first to publish the offending cartoons, after which its Paris headquarters was the target of an armed attack in 2015, in which 12 were shot dead.
Kadyrov played down the suggestion that the Bati forward was born in Chechnya and said he grew up in France, saying in an Instagram post Tuesday that Macron was wrong when he described displaying such cartoons as freedom of opinion.
Addressing Macron, he added: “You push people towards terrorism, you leave them no choice and you create the conditions for the growth of extremism in the heads of young people. You can boldly describe yourself as the leader and inspiration of terrorism in your country. “.
Macron praised Batey as a “true hero” and vowed to fight “Islamic isolationism” in France.
“No one will intimidate us and we warn those who sow the seeds of hatred, such as Kadyrov, and we tell them that this is unacceptable,” said an official in the French presidential administration.
France is witnessing, recently, a controversy over the statements of a large part of politicians against Islam and Muslims, after the murder of a history teacher named Samuel Bate (47 years old), on October 16, by a student French (18 years old) angry at Patti showing pictures. “Insulting” cartoon of the prophet Muhammad against his students, demanding freedom of expression.
The French president described Patti’s assassination, at the time, as undermining freedom of expression and an “Islamic terrorist attack,” and vowed to confront this terrorism, as he put it.
His speech was widely rejected in Islamic countries, and his statements were described as incitement to hatred, and a campaign was launched to boycott French products in the Arab world.
Macron had previously announced earlier this month that France must confront what he called “Islamic isolationism,” claiming it seeks to “establish a parallel system” and “deny the republic.”
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanan said on Sunday September 27 that his country is waging a war against what he called “Islamic terrorism,” in his remarks during a visit to a synagogue near the capital, Paris.
On Wednesday July 16, French Prime Minister Jean Castex said that “combating Islamic extremism” is one of his “main concerns”, during his announcement to the National Assembly of his government’s general policy statement.
And a series of attacks in France since January 2015 have killed 258 people, and “the level of terrorist threat remains very high” five years later, according to a statement from the French Interior.