Turkey “condemns” Charlie Hebdo for covering up Erdogan | In the revolt of the Islamic world against Macron: “Let’s boycott French products”



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In the cartoon, the Turkish president is seen on the couch. in t-shirt and underpants, with a can in hand, while lift the long veil of a muslim woman complete with a tray and two glasses of wine. With the tips of his fingers, Erdogan lifts the woman’s garment to free it. fully uncovered background. Then the exclamation: “Ouuuh! The Prophet!”. A drawing signed by Alice and that adds to the already lively tensions between Ankara and Paris.

The Islamic world with Erdogan, revolt against Macron – Tens of thousands of protesters in Bangladesh, calls for a Qatari boycott of Jordan, threats of revenge by the Taliban in Pakistan. From the Middle East to Central Asia, the Muslim world rebels against France and its President Emmanuel Macron, charged with “blasphemy” for defending the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

The standard-bearer for the campaign against Paris and “Islamophobic” Europe remains Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. After his “appeal to the nation” not to buy French brands and the virulent accusations about the treatment of Muslims in the Old Continent, compared to that of the Jews on the eve of the Shoah, his new front is with the populist extreme right by the Dutch Geert Wilders, who in a cartoon published on Twitter represented him with a bomb on his head and defined him as a “terrorist”. Erdogan reported him to the Ankara prosecutor’s office for “offending” the Turkish head of state. “So the man who calls me a fascist, and who used to call all of Holland a fascist and remnant of Nazism, is now going to file a complaint against me? The world upside down. Loser!” The leader of the Dutch opposition, also capitalizing on the support of Prime Minister Mark Rutte in the name of “freedom of expression” which “includes cartoons”.

However, it’s not just the virtual squares that are on fire.. Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in the last hours in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, calling for a boycott of French products and burning images of Macron. The protesters were detained shortly before reaching the Paris embassy. In Kuwait, a non-governmental chain of hypermarkets has announced the recall of ‘Made in France’ products. Similar cases are recorded in Qatar, a key ally of Turkey, where the leader of the boycott is the supermarket group Al Meera, but also in more moderate Jordan, while the University of Doha has announced that it has indefinitely postponed the ‘Week of French Culture’. And by the Taliban in Pakistan an explicit threat is coming. The boycott, they warn, “is not enough: blasphemers should suffer the consequences. The Islamic community will demonstrate its loyalty to the Prophet.”

The diplomacy of Islamic countries is also making itself felt. Having already accused Macron of “fueling extremism”, theIran summoned the French charge d’affaires to Tehran to express regret for a position defined as “reckless”. According to the Islamic Republic, “Paris uses freedom of expression to promote Islamophobia.” A clear condemnation also comes from the Muslim Council of Elders, based in AD. Abu dhabi and chaired by the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar of Cairo, who announced his intention to prosecute Charlie Hebdo and “anyone who offends Islam”; while the Islamic High Council in Algeria denounces “an angry campaign” against Mohammed “under the pretext of freedom of expression”.



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