Top Palestinian Muslim cleric on Thursday called for a "Day of Rage" over French President Emmanuel Macron's rhetoric on the threat of Islamism in France.
Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, the head of the Palestinian Islamic Supreme Council, announced that Muslims everywhere "denounce the offensive drawings of the prophet Muhammad and will express their forceful rejection of these uncivilized transgressions."
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Calling on Palestinians to protest after Friday's prayers, Sabri charged that "the offensive cartoons contravene the principles of the freedom of speech."
The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas and Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah have also spoken out against France, while protests have been staged outside several French embassies in the Middle East.
Earlier on Thursday, some 200 Israeli Arabs staged a protest outside the French Embassy in Tel Aviv against Macron's remarks.
Macron drew ire by saying that the French teacher beheaded outside his school outside Paris earlier this month "was killed because Islamists want our future."
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The teacher, Samuel Paty, was murdered after he had shown cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed during a class he was leading on free speech."
We will not give up cartoons," Macron said, declaring that Islamists "will never have" France's future.
Thursday saw another Islamist atrocity in France, this time in Nice, where an assailant knifed three people to death, decapitating one of them.
This article was first published by i24NEWS.
