(27 Oct 2020) Dozens of protesters from a Pakistani Muslim organisation demonstrated Tuesday in Karachi against France's refusal to condemn the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, in the latest fallout over France's response to the beheading of a teacher.
The protesters chanted slogans against French President Emmanuel Macron and then burned his portrait and an effigy.
"The protest was organized to protest against the French support for the caricatures of Prophet Muhammad so that we will let the whole world know that 1.5 billion Muslims feel hurt," said Muhammad Qasim Jalali, a local leader for the Tahafuz Islam Pakistan organisation.
Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East and beyond have been outraged by Macron's remarks last week in which he declined to condemn the caricatures.
Geopolitical tensions have been growing following the beheading of a French teacher who showed the caricatures to his class during a lesson on free speech.
The 18-year-old Chechen refugee who carried out the attack was later shot dead by police.
The teacher, Samuel Paty, has been heralded as a symbol of France's staunch secular ideals and its rejection of religious intrusion in public spheres.
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