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The Libyan Government of National Unity (GNA) “strongly denounced” Emmanuel Macron's comments on the freedom to caricature the Prophet Muhammad on Monday.
The country's foreign ministry said these words “harm relations between France and the Muslim world and fuel feelings of hatred for political gain”.
Supported by Turkey in the fight between rival Libyan powers, the GNA, recognized by the UN, called on Emmanuel Macron "to reverse his provocative remarks" and "to apologize to nearly 1.3 billion Muslims in the world ".
According to Tripoli, the extremism that the French President uses as a "pretext" to insult the Prophet Muhammad "is not linked to Islam but to extremist groups which use Islam to carry out terrorist acts".
Protests in the Muslim world
For several days, the French president has suffered from a flood of criticism, fueled in the first place by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and protests in the Muslim world because of comments made during the national tribute paid last week to Samuel Paty, teacher beheaded in an Islamist attack on October 16 for showing caricatures of the prophet in class.
During this tribute, Emmanuel Macron had promised that his country would continue to defend this kind of caricatures.
Demonstrations to denounce the remarks took place in several cities in Libya, including one that gathered about 70 people on Sunday in Tripoli.
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