Dhaka: Thousands of people on Monday rallied in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, and Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, against the French president’s support for laws allowing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. March fired.
Demonstrators gathered outside the Betul Mukarram Mosque in Dhaka to participate in a demonstration organized by the Hifazat-e-Islam group. They were chanting slogans like ‘France Murdabad’ and ‘Boycott French products’. They also burned statues of French President Emmanuel Macron.
Indonesian Muslims also marched against the French president after the French embassy in the Indonesian capital Jakarta. More than two thousand protesters took part in it. Protesters in Jakarta also called for a “boycott of French products.”
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