Boycotts of French goods launched in Kuwait, Qatar over prophet cartoons

Following controversial comments made by France's president, calls are growing in Muslim countries for boycotts of French goods.
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Workers at a supermarket in the Jordanian capital, Amman, remove French products from shelves during a boycott of French products, Oct. 26, 2020. Calls to boycott French goods are growing in the Arab world and beyond, after President Emmanuel Macron criticized Islamists and vowed not to "give up cartoons" depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Macron's comments came in response to the beheading of a teacher, Samuel Paty, outside his school in a suburb near Paris earlier this month, after he had shown cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a class he was leading on free speech. - KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP via Getty Images
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Supermarkets in Kuwait, Qatar and elsewhere in the Muslim world are pulling French products off their shelves to protest recent comments made by French President Emmanuel Macron over controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. 

Kuwait's nongovernmental Union of Consumer Co-operative Societies has reportedly yanked a number of items made in France. Reuters visited several co-ops Sunday and found the shelves cleared of French beauty and hair products as well as other French goods. 

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