Jakarta, (UNA-OIC) – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) condemned President Emmanuel Macron’s moves to stoke anti-Islamic sentiment in France, averring that he has bred Islamophobia among his people through indirect support to the ongoing blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad.
“The MUI has observed that Macron indirectly backs Islamophobic movements,” MUI Deputy General Chairman KH Muhyiddin Junaidi stated here on Monday while commenting on Macron’s support for displaying and reprinting the cartoons mocking Prophet Muhammad.
Junaidi pointed out that France was recorded in world history as one of the Western colonizers that has adopted a racist and cruel approach against the people of its colonies, especially Muslim-populated nations in the African continent.
“Hence, there is no doubt if Macron’s Islamophobic behavior draws fierce reactions from the Islamic World, and he is compelled to withdraw his Islamophobic statements. Several Middle Eastern countries have also condemned and boycotted French products,” he remarked.
