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Currently, Muslims around the world criticize the comments of French President Emmanuel Macron in favor of the reissue of a character that insults the Prophet Muhammad.
The cartoon that Charlie Hebdo released in 2015 returned to the spotlight after a French teacher, Samuel Paty, was murdered last week by a Chechen teenager after the teacher showed the cartoon in his class to discuss freedom. expression. Later, the police shot and killed the attacker.
Last Wednesday, Macron said that he would not prevent the cartoon from being published under the guise of free speech that sparked outrage in the Muslim world.
French Muslims accuse him of trying to suppress Islam and legitimize Islamophobia.
Several Arab countries, as well as Turkey and Pakistan, have also condemned Macron’s stance on Muslims and Islam, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the French leader needed a “mental health check.”
In Bangladesh, tens of thousands of protesters marched towards the French Embassy in Dhaka on Tuesday (10/27) to show their strong objections to the statement. The protesters also called on people to boycott French products.
Bangladesh is a major consumer of French perfumes and cosmetics. (Also read: Saudi Arabia criticizes a cartoon that insults the prophet Muhammad SAW)
Protesters on Sunday in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, asked the French president to apologize for his comments. “As one of the major European countries, France knows very well that the Prophet Muhammad is the greatest leader for Muslims throughout the world,” Khalilur Rahman Madani, organizer of the Joint Islamic Party, told Anadolu Agency. (See infographic: List of French products potentially boycotted by the Muslim world)
He called the movement to boycott French products “peaceful.” (See video: Long vacations are approaching, the number of passengers in transport increases)
During Sunday’s protests, students from the University of Dhaka gathered in the capital to protest against the publication of state-sponsored cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in France.
They asked the Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs to summon the French ambassador.
Saleh Uddin PROPERi, a law student at the university, said: “We believe in freedom of speech and of the press, but insulting faith and religion is not acceptable. We find this in the anti-Semitic propaganda cartoons of the German Nazis.”
The impulsive boycott has had an impact on the trade of French goods in Bangladesh, traders said.
“We tend to see people asking about the origin of a product to evaluate its quality. But in the last few days, we have seen several people asking if the product is from France, ”Md Sirajul Islam, a cosmetics trader at Pasar Baru shopping center in Dhaka, told Anadolu.
He added: “I sell a lot of French perfumes, but now the demand has hit rock bottom.”
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