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French President Macron speaks at the scene of a terrorist weapon▶ Click here to enlarge the view
As protests against the French and boycotts of French products showed signs of proliferation in the Islamic world, French President Emmanuel Macron began to evolve.
According to the AFP news agency on the 31st (local time), President Macron conducted an interview with Al Jazeera Broadcasting on the afternoon of this afternoon, giving a voice of contempt towards Islam.
President Macron admitted that the complaints of Charly Evdo, a French weekly that satirizes the founder of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad, could be shocking to Muslims (Muslims).
President Macron said: “I understand that people may be surprised to see the criticism,” he said, “but the justification for the violence is absolutely unacceptable.”
He said, “I understand and respect the feelings this has caused,” he said. “You have to understand that it is my role to calm the situation.”
On the one hand, he emphasized, “it is also my function to protect the freedom to speak, write, think and draw in our country.”
In France, on the 16th, a high school history teacher, Samuel Party, who used the cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad as class material, died after being beheaded by a young Islamic extremist.
President Macron said Islam is “in crisis” and expressed his stance of defending freedom of expression in the magazine that published the cartoon.
As a result, Muslims in the Middle East and Asia launched a boycott of French products and large-scale condemnation protests were held in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
In relation to Muhammad Manpyeong, Macron criticized political leaders and the media for distorting this, leading them to believe that it was the creation of the French government.
“Many media outlets and, at times, political and religious leaders are creating confusion,” he said. “They are talking as if they were a project or a creation of the French government or president.”
French President Macron’s photo of Palestinian protesters on fire▶ Click here to enlarge the view
President Macron accused the boycott of French products of being led by Turkish President Rezef Taif Erdogan and various distributors in Muslim countries.
“It is not appropriate and unacceptable,” he said.
President Macron has already said that even before the beheading of high school teachers, he will never police Islamic extremists who threaten the values of French law and the republic.
In particular, he said that Muslims in France should be free from outside influences such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, and they plan to verify foreign financial support for mosques (Islamic mosques) and crack down on the evangelization of foreign preachers on French territory. .
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