The outrage in the Muslim world over cartoons of Muhammad should be an eye-opener to those who have been denial about normative Islam. Muslim countries are coming out one by one to condemn the cartoons, including Saudi Arabia, and many are not condemning the beheading of French school teacher Samuel Paty; many are also insisting that terrorism has nothing to do with Islam.
Even “Russia’s Chechnya region said Paris was pushing people towards terrorism.” In other words, any country that stands for the freedom of speech, even speech that offends Islam, and cracks down on the proliferation of the jihad ideology is considered to be “pushing people toward terrorism.”
The rage against France has become so exaggerated that the French government is now warning its citizens in Muslim-majority countries to “take extra precautions.”
Not only France, but all of the West is in serious trouble given the trends in France.
Take a look at the scene in Bangladesh:
“France warns citizens to be cautious as anger seethes in Muslim world over cartoons,” by Christian Lowe and Andrew Osborn, Reuters, October 27, 2020:
PARIS/MOSCOW (Reuters) – France warned its citizens in several Muslim-majority countries to take extra security precautions on Tuesday as anger surged over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, and the head of Russia’s Chechnya region said Paris was pushing people towards terrorism.
In Bangladesh, thousands of protesters marched through the capital, with some stamping on a poster of French President Emmanuel Macron, and Iran summoned the French charge d’affaires to register a protest over the cartoons.
But in a sign that some countries want to limit the fallout, Saudi Arabia – while condemning the cartoons – held back from echoing calls in other parts of the Muslim world for a boycott of French products.
The row has its roots in a knife attack outside a French school on Oct. 16 in which a man of Chechen origin beheaded Samuel Paty, a teacher who had shown pupils cartoons of Prophet Mohammad in a civics lesson. The caricatures are considered blasphemous by Muslims.
The French government, backed by many citizens, saw the beheading as an attack on freedom of speech, and said they would defend the right to display the cartoons.
Macron called the teacher a hero, and he pledged to fight “Islamist separatism”, saying it was threatening to take over some Muslim communities in France…..