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TAyyip Erdogan did not miss the opportunity to reawaken a culture war mood and deliver it against Emmanuel Macron. “What problem does this individual named Macron have with Islam and Muslims?” He asked in a speech Saturday to supporters of his ruling AKP party. He suggested that the French president have his “mental health” checked. The reason for Erdogan’s outbreak was an announcement by Macron last week, in which the French president explicitly announced that France would not shy away from showing cartoons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad even after the cruel assassination of teacher Samuel Paty.
Paty was beheaded on the street by an Islamist extremist. He had shown his students cartoons of Muhammad when he spoke on the subject of freedom of expression. In Islam they are considered blasphemous because they violate a prohibition, although not indisputable, on images. Paty was first the target of a hate campaign and then she was beheaded on the street by an 18-year-old.
