Hundreds of people are protesting in Jaffa outside the French ambassador’s residence against France’s President Emmanuel Macron, who has sparked ire across the Arab and Muslim world for his crackdown on Islamists and vow to not “give up cartoons” depicting the Prophet Mohammad.
Protesters hold aloft banners with the Muslim declaration of faith in flowing calligraphic strokes: “There is no God but God, and Mohammad is his Prophet.”
Arab-Israeli protesters gather outside the residence of the French Ambassador to Israel, in Tel Aviv-Jaffa on October 24, 2020, in response to comments by French President Emmanuel Macron defending cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
A small child also holds a homemade construction-paper sign, reading “God’s messenger, I love you,” referring to Mohammad.
Macron’s comments, on Wednesday, came in response to the beheading of a teacher, Samuel Paty, outside his school in a suburb outside Paris earlier this month, after he had shown cartoons of the Muslim prophet during a class he was leading on free speech.
— with AFP
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