Banda Aceh – Deputy Chairman of the Acehnese Ulema Consultative Assembly (MPU) Faisal Ali appealed to the Indonesian Federal government to join the calls for boycotting French products in Indonesia.
” The government’s participation will show that Indonesia, with the most significant Muslim population worldwide, has actually felt angered by French President Emmanuel Macron’s intolerance towards Islam and Muslims,” he told ANTARA here on Tuesday.
Ali said that Macron’s anti-Islamic remarks and support for reprinting and depicting animations mocking Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) have apparently exposed his intolerance towards Islam and Muslims within and outside France.
” We condemn the French president’s anti-Islam remarks,” he kept in mind, including that Macron’s Islamophobic declarations appear to forecast Islam in an unfavorable light.
Preferably, as a leader of a well-developed country, Macron needs to steer clear from passing anti-Islamic statements given that Islam is a faith that needs to not be viewed as an opponent, he emphasized.
Macron’s remarks following the beheading of Samuel Paty, a history and geography instructor, for revealing animations of Prophet Muhammad throughout a class on October 6, 2020, have stimulated controversy and fueled a reaction from Muslims worldwide over the past few days.
Abdullakh Anzorov, 18, who eliminated Paty on October 16, 2020, was later on shot dead by the French authorities. Anzorov had actually felt angered over Paty revealing the cartoons in class.
” France will not quit our cartoons,” Macron mentioned 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 after-effects of his murder, cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad, made by Charlie Hebdo, were projected onto public structures.
In response to Macron’s Islamophobic behavior and hostility towards Islam, the Indonesian Foreign Ministry was reported by Republika to have denounced the French president for supporting the rights to reprint and portray Prophet Muhammad’s animations.
According to Republika, among Indonesia’s leading news outlets, the Indonesian Foreign Ministry had also summoned French Ambassador to Indonesia and Timor Leste Olivier Chambard on Tuesday (Oct 27) over Macron’s statements and position to initiate Islamophobic habits.
Early today, the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) had appealed to Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi to summon Ambassador Olivier Chambard over Macron’s Islamophobic declarations that had activated numerous acts of violence worldwide.
MUI Deputy General Chairman KH Muhyiddin Junaidi had actually mentioned earlier that President Macron’s declarations that job Islam and Muslims worldwide in an unfavorable light by implicating the faith of being in crisis have actually likewise incited Islamophobic sentiments in France.
On Tuesday, Patron of the Jakarta-based Al Azhar Youth Leader Institute (AYLI), Sariat Arifia, had actually also required a boycott of French items in Indonesia in reaction to President Macron’s careless remarks.
Arifia likewise appealed to the Indonesian federal government to sever diplomatic relations with France while highlighting that there are several other countries that get along and eager to create cooperation without “insulting the Messenger of God”.
As the world’s largest Muslim population, Indonesia’s concrete response to Macron’s discuss Islam, Prophet Muhammad, and Muslims is eagerly waited for by numerous other nations, he noted.
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