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In mid-October, 47-year-old teacher Samuel Paty was found stabbed to death a short distance from a school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, north of Paris. The alleged perpetrator, an 18-year-old Moscow-born man of Chechen origin, was shot and killed by police.
The incident is being investigated as an act of terrorism.
In early October, Samuel Paty had shown images of the so-called Muhammad cartoons to a group of students in connection with a course on freedom of expression, which sparked anger.
After the attack The drawings have been displayed in various places in France in solidarity with the teacher, creating outrage in several Muslim countries.
President Macron claims that the publication of the images is subject to freedom of expression. He vowed to fight Islamist separatism and said it threatens to take over some Muslim communities in France.
In the past week, police have been raiding Muslim organizations and suspected extremists in France, following mounting pressure from the government to crack down on religious fundamentalism, The Guardian reports.
“We are trying to fight an ideology, not a religion,” Interior Minister Gérard Darmanin told Libération.
Now France is calling citizens who travel or live in countries where the majority of the inhabitants are Muslim, to take special care. The Foreign Ministry has issued special recommendations for the French in Indonesia, Bangladesh, Iraq and Mauritania, warning them to avoid demonstrations against the Muhammad cartoons and other crowds, writes Reuters.
“It is recommended to take the utmost care, especially when traveling and in places visited by tourists or groups of foreign residents,” the recommendations state.
The French embassy in Turkey has issued advice similar to the French in the country.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan he has been one of the most outspoken critics of France and called for a boycott of French products while accusing the country of having an anti-Muslim agenda.
Iran summoned a French diplomat and said France’s response to the assassination was “reckless.” According to Iranian state television, an official from the Iranian Foreign Ministry has accused France of inciting hatred against Islam, under the pretext of freedom of expression.
In Bangladesh, some 40,000 people participated in protests against France in the capital, Dhaka. The participants burned photographs of Macron.
The leader of the Russian republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said on Tuesday that Macron inspires terrorists by justifying the cartoons.
“People are forced into terrorism, people are pushed against it, given no other choice, opportunities are created for extremism to grow in the minds of young people. You can boldly call yourself the leader and inspirer. terrorism in his country, “Kadyrov says of Macron according to Reuters.
In Saudi Arabia trends a call to boycott the French food chain Carrefour on social media. At the same time, the authorities maintain a lower profile than many other Muslim countries on this matter. A Saudi Arabian Foreign Ministry official says Saudi Arabia condemns all forms of terrorist acts.
“Freedom of expression and culture must be a guiding principle of respect, tolerance and peace, which rules out practices and actions that generate hatred, violence and extremism and are opposed to coexistence,” the official said in a statement.
In Kuwait, some stores have recalled French products.
Several French websites have been hacked with the message “Those who treat the messenger of Allah badly must be punished,” claims The Guardian.
On Tuesday France prayed Interior Minister Gerald Darman in Turkey and Pakistan so as not to interfere in the internal affairs of the country. France has also withdrawn its ambassador from Ankara, while the Pakistani parliament, for its part, has drawn up a resolution calling on the government to withdraw its envoy from France.
The Muhammad cartoons were published several years ago in the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which was attacked in 2015 when gunmen shot and killed twelve people.
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