Pakistani Minister of Human Rights Shireen Mazari asserted that "Macron does to Muslims what the Nazis inflicted on Jews", claiming that "Muslim children will have to have an identification number, as Jews were forced to wear the yellow star on their clothes to be identified ".
The French Foreign Ministry strongly condemned on Saturday the "detestable and false" remarks by a Pakistani minister about President Emmanuel Macron and his relations with the Muslim population in France, according to a statement from his spokesperson.
"Macron does to Muslims what the Nazis inflicted on Jews"
"A member of the Pakistani government spoke today on social networks in terms that are deeply shocking and insulting to the President of the Republic and our country", indignant French diplomacy, qualifying these remarks "detestable" of "shameless lies, imbued with an ideology of hatred and violence".
Pakistani Minister of Human Rights Shireen Mazari said earlier in a tweet that "Macron does to Muslims what the Nazis inflicted on Jews", claiming that "Muslim children will have to have an identification number, like Jews were forced to wear the yellow star on their clothing to be identified. "
Information formally denied by the French government.
"Pakistan must rectify these remarks and return to the path of a dialogue based on respect"
"Pakistan must rectify these remarks and find the path of a dialogue based on respect", insists the spokesperson for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Pakistan has been the scene since September of anti-French protests, often stormy, after the republication of the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad by the satirical weekly
Charlie Hebdo
.
Several thousand people recently demonstrated at the gates of Islamabad to protest against Emmanuel Macron's statements defending the right to cartoon in the name of freedom of expression, during the tribute to a teacher killed after showing such drawings to his class.