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Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –
France’s president Emmanuel macron he raised his voice again in the worldwide condemnation of the comments he made about an attack on a French citizen for the reissue Prophet Muhammad cartoon which is considered to hurt Muslims.
He said he could understand if Muslims were surprised by the cartoon Charlie Hebdo reprinted weekly.
This was revealed by Macron in an interview with the Qatar-based television channel Al-Jazeera to quell the anger of Muslims. In the interview, Macron explained the meaning of his previous words in a softer tone.
“I can understand that people can be scandalized by the cartoon, but I will never accept that the violence is justified,” he said on Saturday (10/31).
“I consider it our duty to protect our freedom and our rights,” he added in an interview quoted from 16:00 GMT.
Macron sparked protests in the Muslim world after commenting that France maintained freedom of expression through cartoons.
He did not stop there, on Friday (10/23) yesterday, he said that Islam is “a religion that is experiencing a world crisis.”
This was revealed by Macron as a reaction to the assassination of teacher Samuel Paty earlier this month. He was assassinated after showing Mohammed cartoons in his class.
Macron considers Paty to be a martyr who promotes freedom of opinion and the perpetrator is a radical Muslim. It also followed this incident with an order to monitor French Islamic organizations and closed several suspicious mosques.
Inevitably, Macron’s talk drew criticism and protests from Islamic countries in various parts of the world. Coming from Middle Eastern countries, Turkey, Pakistan, Iran, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia, they sent criticism. In Indonesia, protests and criticism came from Islamic organizations such as MUI, PP Muhammadiyah, GP Ansor, PA 212, and later also from various figures.
The reissue of the caricature of the Prophet Muhammad
France is now on the verge of reissuing the cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad, which was criticized by the world in 2015, was reissued in early September by the weekly Charlie Hebdo.
This reissue was followed by attacks outside the previous office, beheading of a teacher, and attacks in Nice.
On Saturday, French authorities were investigating whether a young Tunisian man suspected of assaulting and murdering three people with a knife inside a church in Nice received outside help.
Macron has called the latest attack in Nice an “Islamist” terror.
The attack was carried out by Brahim Issaoui, 21, a young Tunisian who arrived in Europe last month. According to prosecutors, he committed the murders of the French Nadine Devillers (60), the sacristan Vincent Loques (55) and the Brazilian mother Simone Barreto Silva.
Issaoui was then shot by police several times and the man is currently in critical condition in hospital. Therefore, investigators cannot ask about the motivation for the attack.
“It is too early to say if someone else was involved, what was his motivation for coming to France and when this idea took root in him,” said a source close to the investigation who asked not to be named.
Investigators believe Issaoui illegally arrived in Europe on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, Italy, on September 20. It then arrived at the port of Bari on the Italian mainland on October 9 before arriving in Nice just a day or two before the attack.
Currently, the French police are holding three people for questioning in the investigation. The first man, 47, was taken into custody Thursday night after being seen with the attacker in surveillance footage the day before the attack.
The second person, who allegedly contacted Issaoui the day before the attack, was detained on Friday. Police said Saturday that a third man, 33, was arrested after being present when the second suspect’s home was raided.
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