Supporters and activists of the Islami Andolan Bangladesh, an Islamic political party, take part in a protest calling for the boycott of French products and to denounce the French President Emmanuel Macron for his comments over a cartoon of Prophet Mohammad, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, October 27, 2020. REUTERS/Stringer
DHAKA (Reuters) - Thousands of Muslims took to the streets of the Bangladesh capital on Tuesday to protest against remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron in a row about cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.
The dispute has its roots in a knife attack outside a French school on Oct. 16 in which a man of Chechen origin beheaded Samuel Paty, a teacher who had shown pupils the cartoons in a civics lesson on freedom of speech.
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