Turkey Joins Muslim World in Boycotting France

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