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In the Muslim world, calls for a boycott and demonstrations of French products have been successive since the head of state Emmanuel Macron declared at the final farewell of the brutally murdered history professor that France will continue to publish cartoons of Mohamed and that the country will defend its secular values against radicalism. France has now called on Middle Eastern countries to stop boycotting anti-French products and demonstrations.
Samuel Paty, a history teacher, was killed and ended up on October 16 near a Chechen Islamist Paris because he showed Mohamed cartoons to students during his free speech class. The author was shot by the police shortly after the attack. Macron said after the attack that the teacher was killed because “Islamists want our future, but we will not abandon our cartoons!”
In Jordan, Qatar, and Kuwait, French products, such as French beauty products, have already been pulled from the shelves of various stores. In Kuwait, a non-governmental wholesale union urged stores to boycott products because it said France had repeatedly insulted the Prophet Muhammad.
“Calls for a boycott have no material basis and must be stopped immediately, as should all attacks on our country that have been initiated by a radical minority,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
According to the ministry, in recent days a boycott of French food products has been called for in several Middle Eastern countries, and protests against France are being called in a tone of hatred on social media. These calls, according to the Ministry of Foreign Relations, “twisted France’s position on freedom of conscience, religion and expression, something about rejecting the call to hatred.”
On Sunday night, Emmanuel Macron pointed this out in several Twitter posts in French, English and Arabic. He wrote:
“We never let him go. We respect all differences in the spirit of peace. But we do not accept hate speech and we defend meaningful debates. We will always be on the side of human dignity and universal values ”.
In its statement, the Foreign Ministry recalled that both the president’s speeches and the next bill “serve to combat radical Islamism, along with Muslims in France, who are an integral part of the history and society of the French Republic.”
The French Foreign Ministry has indicated that it has mobilized its diplomatic network to recall and explain France’s position on the issue of fundamental freedoms and the rejection of hatred in those countries.
Macron angered not only Middle Eastern countries but also Turkish President Erdogan himself by speaking out against radical Islamism. “What happens to this person called Macron with Islam and Muslims? He needs psychiatric treatment,” Erdogan said in a televised speech.
In response, Macron reminded his ambassador in Anakara, which is a particularly harsh gesture in diplomacy. (MTI, BBC)
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