France Warns Its Citizens: Beware of Wave of Cartoon Anger …

PARIS – French issued warnings for its citizens living or traveling in some Muslim-majority countries. They were asked to be extra vigilant about the wave of anger over Prophet Muhammad cartoon at a school.

The French foreign ministry’s website on Tuesday (27/10/2020) contained new security advice to citizens in Indonesia, Bangladesh, Iraq and Mauritania advising them to exercise caution.

In addition, the French Embassy in Turkey issues similar advice to its citizens there. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has been one of the harshest critics of the French government.(Also read: After calling for mental care, Erdogan now calls Macron ‘lost’)

The warning said French citizens should stay away from any protests over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad and avoid public gatherings.

“In this context, it is advisable to exercise high vigilance, especially when traveling, and in places frequented by tourists or the expatriate community,” the warning read as quoted from the news. Reuters.

French officials assert their right to display cartoons as an act of defiance after an 18-year-old student from Chechnya beheaded a high school teacher for showing the image to his students as part of a civic lesson.

The caricature is considered blasphemous to Muslims, and in some Muslim countries, there have been rhetorical attacks against French leaders who accuse them of being anti-Islam and have called for a boycott of French products.

A number of Muslim countries criticized the French President’s statement Emmanuel Macron who are considered critical of Islam.(Also read: ‘Bela’ Publishing Cartoon Prophet Muhammad, Macron: We Will Not Give Up)

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