{"id":94332,"date":"2020-10-26T05:34:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T00:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=94332"},"modified":"2020-10-26T05:34:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T00:34:18","slug":"by-cartoons-display-macron-chosen-to-provoke-muslims-including-own-citizens-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=94332","title":{"rendered":"By cartoons display, Macron chosen to provoke Muslims including own citizens: PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Oct 25 (TNS): Prime Minister Imran Khan Sunday said that by encouraging the display of blasphemous cartoons targeting Islam and Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), French President Macron had chosen to deliberately provoke Muslims, including his own citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is unfortunate that he has chosen to encourage Islamophobia by attacking Islam rather than the terrorists who carry out violence, be it Muslims, White Supremacists or Nazi ideologists,\u201d the prime minister remarked in a series of tweets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hallmark of a leader is he unites human beings, as Mandela did, rather than dividing them. This is a time when Pres Macron could have put healing touch &amp; denied space to extremists rather than creating further polarisation &amp; marginalisation that inevitably leads to radicalisation<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImranKhanPTI\/status\/1320286659477442565?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He said the hallmark of a leader was to unite the human beings as had been done by Nelson Mandela, rather than dividing them.  He said that was the time when President Macron could have put healing touch and denied space to extremists rather than creating further polarisation and marginalisation that inevitably led to radicalization.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ  PM asks CEO Facebook for ban on Islamophobic content<br \/>\n\u201cSadly, President Macron has chosen to deliberately provoke Muslims, including his own citizens, through encouraging the display of blasphemous cartoons targeting Islam &#038; our Prophet PBUH,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister said that by attacking Islam, clearly without having any understanding of it, the French president had attacked and hurt the sentiments of millions of Muslims in Europe as well as across the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last thing the world wants or needs is further polarisation. Public statements based on ignorance will create more hate, Islamophobia &#038; space for extremists,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Oct 25 (TNS): Prime Minister Imran Khan Sunday said that by encouraging the display of blasphemous cartoons targeting Islam and Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), French President Macron had chosen to deliberately provoke Muslims, including his own citizens. \u201cIt is unfortunate that he has chosen to encourage Islamophobia by attacking Islam rather than the terrorists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94333,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94332\/revisions\/94333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}