Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan accused French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday of “attacking Islam”, after the European chief criticised Islamists and defended the book of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed.
Khan’s feedback observe statements Macron made ultimate week after a French trainer became beheaded close to Paris after he had proven cartoons of the Prophet in the course of a category he became main on unfastened speech.
In a sequence of tweets, Khan stated the commentary could sow division.
“This is a time whilst Pres Macron ought to have placed recuperation touch & denied area to extremists instead of developing in addition polarisation & marginalisation that unavoidably results in radicalisation,” Khan wrote.
“It is unlucky that he has selected to inspire Islamophobia via way of means of attacking Islam instead of the terrorists who perform violence, be it Muslims, White Supremacists or Nazi ideologists.”
Macron already sparked controversy in advance this month whilst he stated “Islam is a faith this is in disaster all around the world”.
The French trainer have become the goal of an internet hate marketing campaign over his preference of lesson material – the identical pics that sparked a bloody attack via way of means of Islamist gunmen at the places of work of satirical mag Charlie Hebdo, the authentic publisher, in January 2015.
Caricatures of Mohammed are forbidden via way of means of Islam.
Blasphemy is an explosive difficulty in ultra-conservative Pakistan, wherein every person deemed to have insulted Islam or Islamic figures can face the demise penalty.
“By attacking Islam, without a doubt while not having any expertise of it, President Macron has attacked & harm the emotions of tens of thousands and thousands of Muslims in Europe & throughout the world,” Khan stated.
In an cope with to the United Nations ultimate month, Khan, a populist chief who has been regarded to play to Pakistan’s hardline spiritual base, blasted Charlie Hebdo for re-publishing the cartoons, saying “wilful provocations” ought to be “universally outlawed”.
Several Muslim nations have referred to as for a boycott of French goods.

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