Fury against French President Emmanuel Macron continues to rage across the Muslim world as protests are held in India, Pakistan and Iraq over the premier's stance on Charlie Hebdo cartoons. After three people were murdered in Nice Thursday in the latest in a long line of terror attacks in France, Macron said that France will not 'give up on our values' despite fury at the caricatures. They were responding to calls by clerics in various Somali regions to come out and condemn France and boycott French products. Since the Crusades, the seeds of evil and hatred have started falling on these (Muslim) lands and that's when peace was disrupted.' In Cairo, Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said freedom of expression should stop if it offended more than 1.5 billion people.

Source: The Nation October 31, 2020 12:00 UTC