(AFP) The backlash against President Emmanuel Macron’s comments on Islam intensified Sunday, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan again urging him to have “mental checks” and protests in Muslim-majority nations.
The French foreign ministry meanwhile called on authorities in affected countries to ensure the security of French citizens.
It described some social media calls for protests as “heinous,” lamenting manipulations “by a radical minority” and dubbing nascent boycotts of French goods “groundless.”
Speaking after teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded for showing caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed to pupils in a lesson on free speech earlier this month, Macron vowed France would “not give up cartoons” and said Paty “was killed because Islamists want our future.”
