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French President Emmanuel Macron made a statement on Islam that caused controversy. Calls for a boycott of Arab countries also emerged.
Reported AFPOn Monday (10/26/2020) and Sunday (10/25), Macron said in a teaser on Twitter: “We will never give in to Islamic radicals. We do not accept hate speech and defend sensitive debates,” the leader said. . That France.
Previously, calls to boycott French products had increased in Arab countries and beyond, after President Emmanuel Macron criticized Islamists and determined not to give up cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
Macron’s initial comments on Wednesday came in response to the beheading of a teacher, Samuel Paty, in front of his suburban school on the outskirts of Paris earlier this month. Paty was beheaded after showing a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad while teaching.
Kuwait’s non-governmental body, the Union of Consumer Cooperative Societies, has recalled several French products to boycott them. Several parties visited by Reuters on Sunday (10/25) have cleared the shelves of products such as hair and beauty products made by French companies.
“All French products have been excluded from all Consumer Cooperative Societies,” said the president of the Union of Consumer Cooperative Societies, Fahd Al-Kishti. Reuters.
In Saudi Arabia, the Arab world’s largest economy, hashtags calling for a boycott of French Carrefour supermarket retailers topped Twitter’s second trend on Sunday.
Groups in Jordan and Qatar have also launched similar boycott calls. Earlier, the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OCI) condemned on Friday (10/23) the beheading of teachers that had shaken France, but also criticized the “justification of harassment for blasphemy of any religion in the name of freedom of expression” .
Meanwhile, the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement released on Sunday (10/25) local time that in recent days there have been calls to boycott French products, especially food products, in several Middle Eastern countries, as well as calls for demonstrations. against the French for publishing the cartoon satire of the prophet Muhammad of France.
“This call for a boycott is unfounded and must be stopped immediately, as well as all attacks on our country, which are being driven by a radical minority,” the statement said.
