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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The call to boycott French products coincided with the statements of President Emmanuel Macron on Islam. Several buyers from various Arab countries have even noticed this call.
In Qatar, shoppers said they supported the retailer’s decision to bring French products to its shelves. Previously, retail companies such as Wajbah Dairy and Al Al Merra Consumer Goods Company did this.
“I praise this … I hope other companies will follow suit,” said a consumer named Jassim Ibrahim, as written by Al Jazeera, on Wednesday (10/28/2020).
“This is the most powerful weapon we have today.”
The same said Omar Mbarak al-Ali. Doha residents said the boycott reflected the position of the people.
“Hopefully this makes a difference,” he said referring to the French government.
The call for boycotts occurred almost in Kuwait and Turkey. Even Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked his citizens not to buy products from the country of the Eiffel Tower.
Previously, Macron had sparked controversy since early September. At that time, he introduced a law for ‘Islamic separatism’ in France.
Macron once said that “Islam is a religion that is experiencing a world crisis.” Therefore, your government will introduce a bill in December to strengthen the 1905 law that officially separated church and state in France.
After a teacher in France was beheaded for showing a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad in a class he was leading while speaking about freedom, Macron commented again. He said the teacher was “killed because Islamists wanted our future.”
In reference to the data of the Observatory of Economic Complexity of 2018, France’s total exports to several Muslim countries reached 41.1 billion dollars, equivalent to 7.29%, of the country’s total exports, which reached more than 530 billion dollars.
“There are some arms exports and some luxury brands that you can see some impact on, but the percentage of French exports going to those countries will be very, very small,” Andrew Kenningham, European chief economist at Capital, told The National. Economics. .
“So if you think about what the impact will be on the economy as a whole, it wouldn’t be that big at all, especially now, considering all the other things that are happening.”
Economist Intelligence Unit Global Forecast Director Agathe Demarais said the boycott would be brief if it refers to the events of 2015. At the time, similar protests followed the killing of 12 people in the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris by the publication of the same cartoon.
“This is a repeat of what happened in 2015 when there were calls to boycott French products in parts of the Muslim world.” he said.
“This incident was short-lived and I don’t think French companies had any real problems selling their products in the Middle East at the time,” Demarais said.
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