Terrorist. pic.twitter.com/jxdnDhk9ti

— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) October 24, 2020

France urges Arab nations to prevent boycotts over Macron's cartoons defence | BBC News |

France has urged Middle Eastern countries to end calls for a boycott of its goods in protest at President Emmanuel Macron's defence of the right to show cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

On Sunday, Mr Macron doubled down on his defence of French values in a tweet that read: "We will not give in, ever."

We will not give in, ever.
We respect all differences in a spirit of peace. We do not accept hate speech and defend reasonable debate. We will always be on the side of human dignity and universal values.

— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) October 25, 2020

Some supermarket shelves had been stripped of French products in Jordan, Qatar and Kuwait by Sunday. French-made hair and beauty items, for example, were not on display.

In Kuwait, a major retail union has ordered a boycott of French goods.

'Boycott French products' launched over Macron's Islam comments | Al-Jazeera |

Hashtags such as the #BoycottFrenchProducts in English and the Arabic #NeverTheProphet trended across countries including Kuwait, Qatar, Palestine, Egypt, Algeria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

Another protests rally at Gazipur, #Bangladesh.

Thousands protests against mocking #ProphetMuhammad (ﷺ) and defaming Islam in #France.

Tomorrow French Embassy will be Cordon Off (by an Islamic Party). Nationwide protests declared for Friday.#Islamophobia #ShameOnYouMacron pic.twitter.com/bGYZoWgJ3N

— Sakibul Hoque 🇧🇩 (@SakibulHoque8) October 26, 2020

In Kuwait, the chairman and members of the board of directors of the Al-Naeem Cooperative Society decided to boycott all French products and to remove them from supermarket shelves.

Anger towards Emmanuel Macron grows in Muslim world | The Guardian |

On the front page of a hardline Iranian newspaper, he was the "Demon of Paris". In the streets of Dhaka he was decried as a leader who "worships Satan". Outside Baghdad's French embassy, a likeness of Emmanuel Macron was burned along with France's flag.

Rage is growing across the Muslim world at the French president and his perceived attacks on Islam and the prophet Muhammad, leading to calls for boycotts of the French products and security warnings for France's citizens in majority-Muslim states.

The backlash has cut across an extraordinarily diverse Muslim world with a myriad of cultures, sects, political systems and levels of economic development. It has stoked historical and present-day grievances from the markets of Herat in Afghanistan to the upmarket neighbourhoods of Amman and the universities of Islamabad.

"It is widely accepted that laïcité in France today is no longer about secularism and neutrality, rather it a normative mode for the exclusion and targeting of Muslimness in France" [_link]

— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) October 28, 2020

The author Amina Easat-Daas