Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah ripped into French President Emmanuel Macron Friday over the Prophet Mohammad cartoon controversy.
After France was shaken by a deadly terrorist attack that saw a teacher beheaded for showing cartoons featuring Prophet Mohammad in class, Macron stood up for freedom of expression and condemned radical Islamists. This stance triggered protests in the Middle East and Asia – including from the head of the Lebanese Iranian proxy.
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"The French authorities have dragged themselves and the whole of France – they want to drag all of Europe – into a battle with Islam and Muslims for flimsy and sometimes unknown reasons," Nasrallah proclaimed.
"The whole world will stand with you" if France were to stop the "mockery. ... You need to think about correcting this mistake," Nasrallah said, while also condemning the deadly attack in Nice, where a Tunisian refugee stabbed three people to death.
