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TEHERAN, KOMPAS.com – Aside from Turkey and its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been aggressively criticizing the French government for the cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad, Iran has also criticized him by one of the hard-line media outlets showing the cartoon of the French president as a Devil.
According to an Iranian national television report on Tuesday (10/27/2020), the Iranian government summoned a French diplomat and protested a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
An Iranian Foreign Ministry official told French diplomats that Paris’s response after Samuel Paty’s assassination was “reckless.”
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Launching Associated Press The Iranian government (AP) says that France allows hatred of Islam under the pretext of supporting freedom of expression.
Samuel Paty, a teacher in France was brutally murdered by a Muslim teenager from Chechnya, Russia, after giving a free speech class and showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
The tragic incident caught the public’s attention and French citizens took to the streets and demanded freedom of expression.
Meanwhile, the Muslim community around the world laments the intolerance of cartoonists and considers the cartoons that used the great prophet of Islam as a model as an insult to the sacred symbol of Islam.
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A powerful clerical association in the Iranian city of Qom also urged the government to convict Macron.
Iranian hardline newspaper Vatan-e Emrooz he described Macron as a demon and called the French president Satan in a cartoon that appeared on the front page of the newspaper on Tuesday.
Apart from Iran, the Pakistani Parliament passed a resolution condemning the publication of the cartoon of the prophet. On Tuesday, dozens of people in the southern port city of Karachi protested France’s refusal to condemn the publication of the cartoon.
The protesters chanted slogans against Macron and then burned a statue of the French president.
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In Saudi Arabia, the media Saudi Press Agency The state state issued a statement from the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday saying that the kingdom “rejects any attempt to link Islam and terrorism, and denounces the offensive cartoons of the prophet.”
Saudi clerics have condemned the cartoon, but have also cited the ummah’s need to emulate Prophet Muhammad’s “compassionate, fair and tolerant” behavior towards some other prominent clerics who ask Muslims not to overreact.
In the Arab Gulf state, Qatar has also condemned the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, calling it “a dramatic increase in populist rhetoric fueling religious abuse.”
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In a statement, the government said the incitement speech sparked repeated appeals against nearly 2 billion Muslims worldwide through deliberate violations of the Prophet Muhammad and had sparked increased hostility towards Muslims.
There have also been protests recently in Iraq, Turkey, in the Gaza Strip, and in opposition areas in northwestern Syria controlled by Turkish-backed rebels.
In the Middle East, Kuwaiti stores have removed French yogurt, cheese and sparkling water bottles from their shelves, the University of Qatar canceled French culture week and called for them to move away from supermarket chains. Carrefour owned by France, which is trending on social media in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
