Blasphemous Charlie Hebdo Cartoons of the Prophet Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa (PBUH) ― the last prophet of religion Islam ―, and French President Macron’s anti-Islam comments
Blasphemous Charlie Hebdo Cartoons of the Prophet Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa (PBUH) ― the last prophet of religion Islam ―, and French President Macron’s anti-Islam comments are condemned by Pakistan, Turkey, Iran, and several other Muslim and non-Muslim countries across the world.
Rashid Hussain
French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday accused the Muslims of separatism and vowed not to part with blasphemous cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad Mustafa (PBUH).
Emmanuel's comments came in response to the killing of a French teacher, Samuel Patty, a 47 years-old French national, who was attacked on his way home from the junior high school where he taught in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, in north-central France.
Calls to boycott French goods and products are growing around the world after President Emmanuel Macron's comments against Islam and the Muslims.
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Leaders of different Muslim countries have condemned the statement of the French President; Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has slammed his Macron’s derogatory remarks in his tweet. He said “The last thing the world wants or needs is further polarization. Public statements based on ignorance will create more hate, Islamophobia & space for extremists.” He goes on with saying more about controversial statements, “Through encouraging the display of blasphemous cartoons targeting Islam & our Prophet PBUH. By attacking Islam, clearly without having any understanding of it, President Macron has attacked & hurt the sentiments of millions of Muslims in Europe & across the world.” Prime Minister Imran Khan further said the hallmark of a leader is to unite human beings, as Nelson Mandela did, rather than dividing them.
“This is a time when President Macron could have put healing touch & denied space to extremists rather than creating further polarization & marginalization that inevitably leads to radicalization,” said Imran Khan.
Imran Khan also wrote a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seeking a ban on anti-Islamic content on the site that has been put in place for the Holocaust. Imran Khan says 'growing Islamophobic content has been encouraging extremism and violence against the Muslims across the world.
In a letter, which the Pakistani government posted on Twitter, Imran Khan appealed to the Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that growing Islamophobia was encouraging extremism and violence across the world, especially through social media platforms such as Facebook.
"I would ask you to place a similar ban on Islamophobia and hate against Islam for Facebook that you have put in place for the Holocaust," Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said. Facebook announced this month that it was updating its hate speech policy to ban publishing any content that denied or distorted the Holocaust.
He further wrote in the letter “I am writing to draw your attention to growing Islamophobia that is encouraging hate, extremism, violence across the world and especially through the use of social media platforms including Facebook. I appreciate your taking the step to rightly ban any posting that criticizes and questions the Holocaust which was the culmination of the Nazi pogrom of the Jews in Germany and across Europe. In France, Islam has been associated with terrorism, and the publication of blasphemous cartoons targeting Islam and our Holy Prophet (PBUH) has been allowed.”
National Assembly of Pakistan has also passed a unanimous resolution condemning the French President’s anti-Islam statement and publication of blasphemous sketches in France. The resolution has called for a day to be observed on March 15 against Islamophobia and recent blasphemous content. The slogan of Takbir (Allah Akbar) was resonated in the assembly hall after the resolution was passed. The resolution condemned the act of the French president in support of these sketches, the government has been asked to recall the Pakistani ambassador from France in reaction. The resolution further called on OIC countries to boycott French products and convene an OIC meeting on the issue of Islamophobia.
Turkish President Recep Tayyep Erdogan in his speech spoke harshly against French President Macron’s anti-Islam statement on Saturday. He urged Macron to have “mental checks” for treating “millions of members from different faith groups this way”, Erdogan’s these comments prompted Paris to recall its envoy from Ankara, also the French President denounced Erdogan’s comments as "unacceptable." He said, "Excess and rudeness are not a method.”
Some videos have been posted on multiple social media sites showing businessmen and tradesmen from various countries, including Kuwait, Jordan, Qatar, Pakistan, and Turkey removing French products from their stores and vowing not to resell them. The movement of boycotting all French products has been on the rise in Pakistan for the past 48 hours. There have also been protests in Libya, Syria, Malaysia, Iran, Israel, Gaza Strip, and France following the French president Macron’s remarks.
A couple of weeks ago, French President Emanuel Macron described Islam as a religion "in crisis," and announced plans for tougher laws to tackle what he called "Islamist separatism" in France.
After the Turkish President’s remarks for French President Macron, the French ambassador to Turkey has been recalled, which will further escalate France-Turkey relations.
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