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Calls for a boycott of French products are gaining ground in some Muslim countries, in retaliation against President Emmanuel Macron, who did not limit himself to caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in France, the DPA reported on Sunday, cited by Agerpres.
France “will not renounce cartoons,” Macron said Thursday night at a memorial service for Professor Samuel Paty, beheaded in an Islamist attack after showing his students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
On Friday, the cartoons were screened in a French government building, sparking anger in the Arab world. Calls to boycott French products and hashtags with messages in defense of the Prophet Muhammad have gone viral on social media.
Internet users in Egypt have ridiculed President Macron, depicting him as a dog in social media posts. Lists of French brands, such as those of car manufacturers or famous brands of dairy products, were also distributed, urging them to boycott them.
In Kuwait, 50 companies have announced that they have withdrawn all French products from their offering, according to the al-Qabas news website. According to other reports, Qatari stores have removed French products from the shelves.
“The practice of broadcasting satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, detrimental to Franco-Muslim relations”
Meanwhile, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) condemned “the practice of broadcasting satirical cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad,” considering it “detrimental to Franco-Muslim relations.”
For his part, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan again attacked his French counterpart this Sunday, questioning his mental health, a day after a similar statement in which France called its ambassador in Ankara.
Two weeks ago, Erdogan had called Macron’s remarks a provocation in a speech announcing the introduction in December of a bill to combat separatism, especially radical Islam. France must “attack Islamist separatism”, a “conscious project” aimed at “creating a parallel order and denying the Republic,” said French President Emmanuel Macron, who said that Islam was “a religion that today is in crisis in everything the world ”.
Publisher: Liviu Cojan
