A month after the speech of French President Emmanuel Macron, in which he promised not to "abandon the cartoons" offensive to the Prophet Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, protests and calls for boycott receded;
But the anger and the threat are still strong.
This is how the French newspaper Le Parisien said, citing a statement by the Pakistani Minister for Human Rights, Sherine Mazari, on Twitter, in which she said that the French president “does to Muslims the same as the Nazis did to the Jews,” excluding “false news” that was widely circulated in all Around the world, France "requires Muslim children to carry an identity number similar to the yellow star, which Jews were forced to put on their clothes."
The French Foreign Ministry was forced to deny this false information, and the statement condemned the official official in Pakistan, with whom relations are still very tense, especially since “political and religious forces have escalated their reactions against Macron, in what looks like a race towards who will be the most extreme,” says Alam. Politics Didier Pion, Deputy Director of the Institute for International and Strategic Research.
Explosive mode
The newspaper likened what is happening to dangerous auctions in an explosive atmosphere, and said that a source in the Elysee stated that "our ambassador in Islamabad had received severe threats, and had already been summoned by the Pakistani authorities." Muslims ";
But the rumor spread on social networks, and "these days we have seen pictures of Macron on the roads and sidewalks walking on them or cars passing over them."
Besides Pakistan, this source clarifies that the situation is still "explosive" in other Islamic countries such as Afghanistan, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Malaysia, where former Prime Minister Mahathir Muhammad tweeted that "Muslims have the right to be angry and to kill millions of French in retaliation for the massacres of the past", and in Turkey, where the President called Recep Tayyip Erdogan personally to boycott French products and publicly questioned Macron's "mental health".
Despite this explosive atmosphere, a senior official in the French Foreign Ministry confirmed that anger is on its way to calm in the rest of the region, especially in West Africa and the Middle East, after the interview conducted by the Qatari Al-Jazeera channel with the head of state, noting that "the boycott calls, most of which were launched from Before the minorities, it never took hold. "
The official pointed out that the province did not exceed emptying a few shelves in some stores of cheese or other similar products;
But they have subsided, just as the demonstrations have, at best, gathered a few hundred or thousand protesters, at most.
Possible escalation
We must never, however, be wary;
Because individual or organized anti-French actions are always possible, as the official says, "A month ago, we put the diplomatic network 3 times in the utmost vigilance, especially after the Jeddah attack in Saudi Arabia during the November 11 celebrations, and 10 police or gendarmerie guards were sent," As reinforcements to the most sensitive sites. "
And "problems will always exist - according to Didier Beaune's analysis - as long as there is a misunderstanding of what secularism means in the French way, in addition to the Muslim world’s perception of a certain type of Islamophobia in France used by political forces, not just the extreme right."
Pune concluded that observers of these countries scrutinize the words and actions of any particular minister and use them, and therefore it is not unlikely that the ratification of a bill against separatism "to promote republican principles" according to its new title, on December 9, provokes a new escalation against the French.