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Kuwaiti markets pulled French products off the shelves. The Communities of Consumer Cooperatives, representing more than 70 institutions, began calling for boycotts as of October 23.
Reuters reporters who visited some grocery stores found that French products such as hair and beauty products were not on the shelves.
Fahd Al-Kishti, Head of Consumer Cooperative Communities, said: “All French products are no longer sold in all stores that are members of our group.” Al-Kishti said they made this decision “because of the endless insults against the Prophet Muhammad.”
A significant part of grocery shopping in the country is done in these stores, some of which are the size of a hypermarket, preferred by most consumers, as coupons distributed by the government are also passed on.
Kuwait exported $ 834 million from France in 2019.
LATEST SITUATION IN SAUDI ARABIA, JORDAN AND SYRIA
A boycott of French supermarket chains in Saudi Arabia became the second most popular label on social media today.
In some supermarkets in Jordan, French products were covered and the shelves began to be emptied. A sign was hung in a market that read “French products are boycotted in solidarity with the Prophet Muhammad.”
“This is the simplest thing we can do,” said Zaher Dirbashi, manager of a shopping center in the capital, Amman. They have to respect our religion and our values. We also have freedom of expression. They express it with cartoons, we are with the economy. “We will surely see who is stronger”,
“Of course the boycott campaign will have an impact,” said a client named Mahmoud Al Kurdi, speaking to Reuters. “If all the Islamic countries and peoples who love Prophet Muhammad boycott French products, the French economy will completely collapse.”
The Islamic Action Front party in Jordan also called for a boycott until Macron apologized.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also announced that some regions in northern Syria do not import French products into the country.
Turkey Tel Abyad and Bab al-air border crossings since they stopped at the border of the products sent for the crossing that describe the observatory, “These two regions of the Provisional Government under whose control and the Salvation government structures named, ‘because it affront al Islam and the symbol ‘did not allow elements to enter’ express used.
Boycott decision in Qatar, Libya and Egypt
The Al-Meera and Souq al-Baladi markets in Qatar also participated in the boycott. When grocery stores unloaded French products from the shelves, they announced that they would not sell these products until a second notice.
The University of Qatar announced on its Twitter account on Friday that it postponed the event called French Culture Week due to “deliberate attacks on Islam and its symbols.”
Today there were protests against Macron’s statements in Libya. In addition to the demonstrations in some cities, Libyan social media users called for a boycott.
Some politicians in Egypt also launched a boycott campaign against French products.
Denmark was boycotted in 2005
Danish products were also boycotted in Muslim countries after a Danish cartoon magazine published a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005.
When a teacher in France was beheaded for showing the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad while speaking about freedom of expression in class, these cartoons were reflected in public buildings and President Macron said: “France will not stop talking about these cartoons and showing them.” . (Turkish BBC)
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