
They’re also free to express themselves. After French President Emmanuel Macron said his government would strike at “radical Islam” in response to the Oct. 16 beheading of a teacher who showed students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, leaders of Muslim nations have struck back. Yesterday Pakistan’s foreign office summoned the French ambassador over France’s “Islamophobic acts, ” while Turkey’s president joined Qatar and Kuwait, which have removed French products from store shelves, in urging a boycott. Meanwhile, Manchester United soccer star Paul Pogba, a convert to Islam, denied reports that he was quitting over Macron’s policies. MORE