Jakarta – The Indonesian government has actually denounced French President Emmanuel Macron’s remarks on Islam and support for representation and publication of animations on Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), which have actually stimulated much ire in the Islamic World.
To register its protest, the Indonesian Foreign Ministry summoned French Ambassador to Indonesia and Timor Leste, Olivier Chambard, on Tuesday (October 27, 2020) and sought an explanation for Macron’s controversial statements.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Teuku Faizasyah informed ANTARA here on Wednesday that Ambassador Chambard was summoned so he might be apprised of Indonesia’s official position on the ‘anti-Islam’ remarks Macron recently made in a speech.
The Indonesian government has actually objected to President Macron’s remarks linking Islam to terrorism or extremism, stating associating any religion to acts of fear can not be justified and would deeply upset adherents of the faiths, Faizasyah stated.
Macron’s remarks following the beheading of Samuel Paty, a history and geography instructor, for showing animations of Prophet Muhammad during a class on October 6, 2020, have actually triggered controversy and fueled a backlash from Muslims worldwide over the past few days.
The federal governments of Muslim bulk countries such as Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, and Malaysia have condemned Macron’s ‘anti-Islam’ remarks and ‘Islamophobic’ habits.
Meanwhile, Muslims at the grassroots have likewise revealed anger and dissatisfaction over Macron’s defense of the right to reprint and depict caricatures of Prophet Muhammad by staging anti-France rallies and heightening campaigns for boycotting French goods.
Paty was eliminated by Abdullakh Anzorov, 18, on October 16,2020 Anzorov, who was later shot dead by the French authorities, had felt upset over Paty revealing cartoons of Prophet Muhammad to trainees.
” France will not quit our animations,” Macron had said in reaction to Paty’s death, as reported by the BBC
Following his death, Paty was bestowed the Légion d’honneur, France’s highest honor.
In the aftermath of his murder, cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad, made by Charlie Hebdo, were projected onto public buildings.
In action to Macron’s ‘Islamophobic’ habits and “hostility towards Islam”, deputy chairman of the Acehnese Ulema Consultative Assembly (MPU), Faisal Ali, had actually interested the Indonesian federal government to sign up with the calls for boycotting French items in Indonesia.
” The government’s involvement will show that Indonesia, with the greatest Muslim population on the planet, has felt angered by French President Emmanuel Macron’s intolerance towards Islam and Muslims,” he remarked. (INE)
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