After the second Islamist-motivated attack in France, within a few days, demonstrations are taking place in many countries – including Germany. Not out of solidarity with France, but against President Macron. Thousands of people protested against French President Emmanuel Macron in several Muslim countries around the world. It was triggered by his utterances about caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. In the Pakistani capital Islamabad, around 2,000 people took to the streets and marched towards the French embassy. Barricades prevented people from achieving their goal. Some participants threw stones at police officers, who used tear gas against the demonstrators. The crowd shouted “Drive away the French dog” and “behead the blasphemer”. In the Pakistani metropolis of Lahore, French flags were again burned, according to observers. In Germany, too, around 150 people protested in front of the French embassy on Friday against the “abuse of the prophet”. Yesterday evening several dozen people took to the streets against Macron in the Berlin district of Neukölln and shouted “Allahu Akbar”. However, the demonstration was broken up by the police after around 30 minutes.

In the Pakistani metropolis of Karachi, 10,000 people marched through the city after the Friday prayers on the occasion of the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed. This protest was also marked by anger at the French President. Prime Minister Imran Khan had previously called on the governments of the Muslim countries to a united fight against “Islamophobia” and lamented the “desecration of the Holy Koran” in European countries. Smaller protests also took place in neighboring Afghanistan. Protests in Lebanon have led to clashes with security forces. Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets after Friday prayers in the capital, Beirut, eyewitnesses reported. Security forces blocked the way to the French embassy. Some of the demonstrators threw bottles and stones at the police. This continued to be tear gas. According to police, 12,000 people took part in protests in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh; independent observers as well as the organizers spoke of 40,000 participants. Some burned pictures of the head of state to express their outrage over Macron’s defense of cartoons of Mohammed.

Hundreds of people protested against Macron in Ethiopia as well. People demonstrated in the capital, Addis Ababa, with posters like “We detest those who try to ridicule our religion,” observers reported. In Ethiopia, which is predominantly Christian, around a third of the population is Muslim.

France fears further attacks

Several thousand people took to the streets in Afghanistan. In the capital Kabul alone there were 2,000 demonstrators, observers reported. The protesters therefore called for diplomatic relations with Paris to be broken off and for a boycott of French goods. After the Friday prayers, many devout Muslims gathered on the Temple Mount (Al-Haram al-Sharif / The Noble Sanctuary) in Jerusalem’s old town, one of the holiest places in Islam. Ikrima Sabri, head of the Supreme Islamic Council of the Palestinians, called for a “day of wrath” on Friday. In the Gaza Strip, too, the ruling Hamas organized protest rallies with hundreds of participants on Friday. The Hamas leadership called on Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims worldwide to boycott France. In front of demonstrators in the Jebalia refugee camp, Hamas leader Fathi Hammad shouted: “The Arab and Islamic world must unite against this criminal attack on our prophet.” The tensions were triggered by Macron’s statements in defense of freedom of expression after the alleged Islamist attack on a teacher near Paris who showed Mohammed cartoons in his class. The President stressed that France “will not give up caricatures and drawings”. Since Macron defended the cartoons after the murder of educator Samuel Paty, protests have raged in many Muslim countries. The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for a boycott of French goods and advised the President to have his “state of mind examined”. One day after the beheading of a woman and the killing of two other people in a church in Nice, the French government fears new attacks of this kind. France is in a “war against Islamist ideology,” said Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on RTL radio. Therefore there will be more incidents like “these terrible attacks”.

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