Saudi Arabia condemns 'offensive cartoons' as calls grow for French boycott

The kingdom "rejects any attempt to link Islam with terrorism," a Foreign Ministry source said.
A picture of French President Emmanuel Macron is burned by Palestinians during a demonstration against him at the Palestine Technical University in al-Aroub, north of the West Bank city of Hebron, on October 27, 2020. - Calls to boycott French goods are growing in the Arab world and beyond, after President Emmanuel Macron criticised Islamists and vowed not to "give up cartoons" depicting the Prophet Mohammed. Macron's comments came in response to the beheading of a teacher, Samuel Paty, outside his school i
A picture of French President Emmanuel Macron is burned by Palestinians during a demonstration against him at the Palestine Technical University in al-Aroub, north of the West Bank city of Hebron, on Oct. 27, 2020. - HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images
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Saudi Arabia is the latest Muslim country to denounce French President Emmanuel Macron’s controversial comments on Islam and depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. 

“The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia rejects any attempt to link Islam with terrorism, and condemns the offensive cartoons of the Prophet,” the Saudi Press Agency quoted an official Foreign Ministry source as saying. 

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