PROTEST GROWS AS HUNDREDS OF SOMALIS CONDEMN FRENCH PRESIDENT’S ISLAMOPHOBIC STATEMENT

Hundreds of Somalis marched in Mogadishu, the capital city of Somalia, against French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday, protesting comments he made about Islam and the Prophet Muhammed (SAW).

Protesters dragged the French flag through the streets before setting it on fire, urging Muslims around the world to unite in a boycott of French products.

Demonstrations have been taking place in several countries after Macron refused to condemn the caricatures of the Prophet (SAW) on several occasions.

The issue has once again come to light following the killing of a Paris school teacher who was beheaded by a radical Islamist last week after showing the cartoon to his class.

Muslim politicians, religious scholars, and everyday people have condemned such depictions as a form of hate speech and view them as sacrilegious and insulting to Islam.

One protester in Mogadishu accused the French president of trying to ‘defame our Prophet’ and warned that Macron and the French people ‘will not be able to win in this battle, you will fail!’

Another argued that Macron ‘must be punished’.